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I recently saw a heartwarming news story with a girl named Sa'Fyre. At the time I was thinking "what a tacky name" but it reminded me on how I used to like Sapphire. What do you think? Is it tacky as well? How about Sapphira?
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Sapphire appeared on my list before I met my partner through a means that I don't remember. It's one of my partners favourite names for a future daughter and thus has received much more attention from myself that's recently put it into my top 5.
I think Sapphire is beautiful and not tacky (like Diamond or Emerald maybe) I think it's as appropriate as a name as Ruby but not as popular - which I find appealing.
Sapphira is too beautiful but not as appealing to me.
I think Sapphire is beautiful and not tacky (like Diamond or Emerald maybe) I think it's as appropriate as a name as Ruby but not as popular - which I find appealing.
Sapphira is too beautiful but not as appealing to me.
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Sapphire is not my style, and I generally think bling names seem like not in the finest taste. Not that I have the finest taste. I like Emerald and Diamond a little, though I would not use them for children. The sound of Sapphire is not so bad really, and the stone is one of the least tacky seeming. Until I notice the obvious FIRE in it and then it starts to seem tacky because it sounds sort of ... sexed up or something.
I dunno, I think some people can carry off Sapphire or Sa'Fyre or whatever, it's not necessarily tacky-seeming on them when I meet them. But if I were to use it, I'd feel like I was using a rather tacky name.
Sapphira seems too dramatic and glammy to me on paper. Not sure what I'd think of it in real life.
I dunno, I think some people can carry off Sapphire or Sa'Fyre or whatever, it's not necessarily tacky-seeming on them when I meet them. But if I were to use it, I'd feel like I was using a rather tacky name.
Sapphira seems too dramatic and glammy to me on paper. Not sure what I'd think of it in real life.
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I looked up the story about Sa'Fyre. God, poor little darling. :(
I would like to send her a card, but I guess it's too late now, she wouldn't receive it in time for Christmas since it has to be transported all the way from northern Europe.
Anyway, I don't like the spelling Sa'Fyre, but Sapphire is OK.
I would like to send her a card, but I guess it's too late now, she wouldn't receive it in time for Christmas since it has to be transported all the way from northern Europe.
Anyway, I don't like the spelling Sa'Fyre, but Sapphire is OK.
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I don't think Sapphire is tacky. I like it a lot. I'd love to know a Sapphire. Nor do I think Sa'Fyre is tacky. I'd bet my grandmother that Sa'Fyre was African American. That's a different culture. Of course, as I am not of that culture, I would use Sapphire and not Sa'Fyre.
Looked it up and I'm wrong!!! Aaaaack! Ok it's tacky lol
Looked it up and I'm wrong!!! Aaaaack! Ok it's tacky lol
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Sapphire apparently has some baggage among the African American community. It was the name of a not-very-admirable character on Amos n Andy, and supposedly has become a very negative stereotype, though I never knew that till I read it recently.
There is an author who calls herself Sapphire. She wrote "Push" which is the basis for the movie "Precious." Sapphire's real name is Ramona and she chose Sapphire because she associated with a billigerent black woman, which I guess she is or thinks she is.
There was also a singer in the late eighties who is famous for the song "Thinking of You" whose stage name was SaFire. She's Puerto Rican and her real first name is Wilma. (Can't blame her for taking SaFire as a stage name, can you?)
Those are the only people of that name that I know of, and one is fictional and two used the name for a stage/pen name.
There is an author who calls herself Sapphire. She wrote "Push" which is the basis for the movie "Precious." Sapphire's real name is Ramona and she chose Sapphire because she associated with a billigerent black woman, which I guess she is or thinks she is.
There was also a singer in the late eighties who is famous for the song "Thinking of You" whose stage name was SaFire. She's Puerto Rican and her real first name is Wilma. (Can't blame her for taking SaFire as a stage name, can you?)
Those are the only people of that name that I know of, and one is fictional and two used the name for a stage/pen name.
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Thank you. That's interesting.
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"Thinking of You" ..
Is a beautiful song if you happen to hear it. It's on Youtube.
Is a beautiful song if you happen to hear it. It's on Youtube.
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I saw the story too. (For those who haven't, a little girl in New York named Sa'Fyre received serious burns a few years ago in an arson fire that killed her father and three siblings; now she would like to fill up a Christmas card tree with as many cards as possible, so people all over the world are sending her cards.)
Anyway, Sa'Fyre is a very tacky spelling, like something you'd see on a porn star or a drag queen or something, not a real person.
Sapphire itself is a pretty word, but I wouldn't like it for a name. It's just too hard and flashy. It lacks Ruby's cuteness, Amber's warmth, Pearl's understatedness and Jade's hard edge.
Anyway, Sa'Fyre is a very tacky spelling, like something you'd see on a porn star or a drag queen or something, not a real person.
Sapphire itself is a pretty word, but I wouldn't like it for a name. It's just too hard and flashy. It lacks Ruby's cuteness, Amber's warmth, Pearl's understatedness and Jade's hard edge.
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