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HelpRe: UK Girls BAs [Long]
in reply to a message by Evey
I like most of these names. Even though reading through them all together makes me feel a little like I'm looking through some kind of trendy product catalog full of soft-focus images.
I'm dismayed by Isadora instead of Isidora. Amused by the revival of the awful Myrtle.
Coco as a woman's official name is so awful! It's like Jojo or Mimi ... IMO not a full first name name, but only something someone is called aloud familiarly, by people who know them personally ... trademarkish. To me, putting it on a birth certificate seems so self-consciously blithe that it's almost deprecating. The way one names a dog.
It must be a British - American cultural difference ... just looking at the number of nicknames in the different top 20, it has to be. I'd like to understand that better. Are nickname names in the UK sort of like tryndee names in the US? So Poppy is like Avery, and Alfie's like Jayden - seeming modern and spunky and devil-may-care? What's the nicknamey style about, to British folks?
- mirfak
I'm dismayed by Isadora instead of Isidora. Amused by the revival of the awful Myrtle.
Coco as a woman's official name is so awful! It's like Jojo or Mimi ... IMO not a full first name name, but only something someone is called aloud familiarly, by people who know them personally ... trademarkish. To me, putting it on a birth certificate seems so self-consciously blithe that it's almost deprecating. The way one names a dog.
It must be a British - American cultural difference ... just looking at the number of nicknames in the different top 20, it has to be. I'd like to understand that better. Are nickname names in the UK sort of like tryndee names in the US? So Poppy is like Avery, and Alfie's like Jayden - seeming modern and spunky and devil-may-care? What's the nicknamey style about, to British folks?
- mirfak
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