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in reply to a message by Bex
It's cute, but in a cartoony kind of way. Wilhelmina the Not-so-Wicked Witch or Wilhelmina the Wild Weasel or something like that.
I like it a lot better than Winifred, which is a sour, sullen kind of name. You could even use Winnie as a nn.
I don't think it's as attractive as Daphne, which I don't really like either because I picture a snobby rich girl who is an expert at everything she does, to hear her tell it. But Daphne does seem more youthful, less goofy, and much less of a mouthful.
I would not want more than one short middle name for a jawbreaker like Wilhelmina.
My husband is now doing some genealogy research on his family, and there's a great-grandmother, (I forget how many greats) named Wilhelmina. She was called Willie. The funny thing is that her husband was William, called Bill. If I was a girl I absolutely wouldn't want to be called Bill, but I could maybe tolerate Willie, if I had to. Maybe Billie, but they are so Dust Bowl here in the US.
There's always Mina.
Wilhelmina would probably have a brother named Frederick.
"It's one thing to be open-minded and quite another to be so open-minded your brains fall out."--Dear Abby
"Let other people push you around, and you deserve whatever bad things happen after that."--Lauren Bacall
I like it a lot better than Winifred, which is a sour, sullen kind of name. You could even use Winnie as a nn.
I don't think it's as attractive as Daphne, which I don't really like either because I picture a snobby rich girl who is an expert at everything she does, to hear her tell it. But Daphne does seem more youthful, less goofy, and much less of a mouthful.
I would not want more than one short middle name for a jawbreaker like Wilhelmina.
My husband is now doing some genealogy research on his family, and there's a great-grandmother, (I forget how many greats) named Wilhelmina. She was called Willie. The funny thing is that her husband was William, called Bill. If I was a girl I absolutely wouldn't want to be called Bill, but I could maybe tolerate Willie, if I had to. Maybe Billie, but they are so Dust Bowl here in the US.
There's always Mina.
Wilhelmina would probably have a brother named Frederick.
"It's one thing to be open-minded and quite another to be so open-minded your brains fall out."--Dear Abby
"Let other people push you around, and you deserve whatever bad things happen after that."--Lauren Bacall
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