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HelpRe: A pitch for my own - and what a Pitch! (Ha Ha Ha)
in reply to a message by mirfak
Interesting that you mention this about the car.
I dropped the middle "a" to further distance the name from the connotations of Bar- bar / Barbarian. I am in New Yorker - and I've never heard the middle 'A' of the middle syllable pronounced, so I abbreviated the spelling accordingly.
As more of a thinker & dreamer, I've never had dolls of any sort--not even many toys when growing up, but as I found this new acceptance, and grew exited about the name's heritage - especially about the correlation between the legend of Saint Barbara and the Rapunzel Fairy Tale, so I acquired a small Barbie Doll to sit on my car dashboard - as though a protector and governess, as the US Navy adopted Saint Barbara as protector of ships and crew.
I understand and even feel, as it were, the sentiment that the name Barbara is "old". It is, simultaneously, classy.
I believe that the Barbie diminutive is quite young, and this is the name I am usually called--especially by younger ladies, who continuously re-iterate my name when they see me.
I dropped the middle "a" to further distance the name from the connotations of Bar- bar / Barbarian. I am in New Yorker - and I've never heard the middle 'A' of the middle syllable pronounced, so I abbreviated the spelling accordingly.
As more of a thinker & dreamer, I've never had dolls of any sort--not even many toys when growing up, but as I found this new acceptance, and grew exited about the name's heritage - especially about the correlation between the legend of Saint Barbara and the Rapunzel Fairy Tale, so I acquired a small Barbie Doll to sit on my car dashboard - as though a protector and governess, as the US Navy adopted Saint Barbara as protector of ships and crew.
I understand and even feel, as it were, the sentiment that the name Barbara is "old". It is, simultaneously, classy.
I believe that the Barbie diminutive is quite young, and this is the name I am usually called--especially by younger ladies, who continuously re-iterate my name when they see me.
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