Miles or Myles?
Which do you prefer, Miles or Myles? And if you don't mind, please tell me why you like one over the other??
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Miles, because randym Ys are tryndy.
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Miles, because I just prefer the look of the "i" to the "y".
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Ditto.
Miles.
Because with that spelling alone, the name seems very modern. While I accept that Myles is a perfectly acceptable spelling, it's just a case of the 'Y' complex that makes it look even more trendy and 'kree8yf.'
(Seriously, I wish I could count myself in the line of thinking that Miles is a "stuffy" name for an old man, because to me, it's so seriously modern, and I can only imagine a 15-or-16-year-old boy with the name-- certainly not a distinguished old gentleman! Granted, I still adore the name, but I always have reservations for using it in the future, just for that particular element of modernity I feel it has.)
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Because with that spelling alone, the name seems very modern. While I accept that Myles is a perfectly acceptable spelling, it's just a case of the 'Y' complex that makes it look even more trendy and 'kree8yf.'
(Seriously, I wish I could count myself in the line of thinking that Miles is a "stuffy" name for an old man, because to me, it's so seriously modern, and I can only imagine a 15-or-16-year-old boy with the name-- certainly not a distinguished old gentleman! Granted, I still adore the name, but I always have reservations for using it in the future, just for that particular element of modernity I feel it has.)
You starve and near exhaust me.
Everything I've done, I've done for you.
I move the stars for no one."
"Within You"
This message was edited 4/2/2006, 5:30 PM
I prefer Miles.
The Y looks rather as though it's been shoved in there to make the name look cool, something I think is completely unnecessary. There's no reason to make Miles look "not fusty," because it isn't. It's so tied to Miles Davis (at least, in my mind) that the name Miles can't help but be cool; it is inherently hip, like listening to Bitches Brew on a turntable with the lights down low.
How could a name whose image looks like this
ever need a style boost?
Miles is enough. Myles takes away the subtlety, and that takes away all the flair the name has.
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The Y looks rather as though it's been shoved in there to make the name look cool, something I think is completely unnecessary. There's no reason to make Miles look "not fusty," because it isn't. It's so tied to Miles Davis (at least, in my mind) that the name Miles can't help but be cool; it is inherently hip, like listening to Bitches Brew on a turntable with the lights down low.
How could a name whose image looks like this
ever need a style boost?
Miles is enough. Myles takes away the subtlety, and that takes away all the flair the name has.
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Censure President Bush.
This message was edited 4/2/2006, 4:45 PM
I like Miles. Myles is too made up and generic.
Miles. Myles is really cool, but... Miles looks more traditional
Myles is *not* tryndee.
Myles is a long-accepted variant of Miles. The only Myles/Miles I know is a Myles (and he's a 70-odd Englishman), so maybe I'm biased- but Miles looks more like a measure of distance or the latin for soldier (miles- pro. MEE-lehs).
On the flip side, many people will lump it in with Mykal and Madysyn and Devyn and Gavyn and Fynn and Lylli and Ty and Ky...so either way has its pros and cons.
In this rare case...I don't have an opinion either way, I suppose :-)
sa
So in sum, I suppose I don't really m
Myles is a long-accepted variant of Miles. The only Myles/Miles I know is a Myles (and he's a 70-odd Englishman), so maybe I'm biased- but Miles looks more like a measure of distance or the latin for soldier (miles- pro. MEE-lehs).
On the flip side, many people will lump it in with Mykal and Madysyn and Devyn and Gavyn and Fynn and Lylli and Ty and Ky...so either way has its pros and cons.
In this rare case...I don't have an opinion either way, I suppose :-)
sa
So in sum, I suppose I don't really m
Miles
i know that Myles is an acceptable spelling of Miles, but it just strikes me as kr8v and trying to be "cool", which i don't like
i know that Myles is an acceptable spelling of Miles, but it just strikes me as kr8v and trying to be "cool", which i don't like
Miles
Myles looks weird, like an elaboration of 'my'.
Miles looks right
Myles looks weird, like an elaboration of 'my'.
Miles looks right
Miles
I hate Myles
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I hate Myles
Ned Flat: Why are you acting like this?
Yakko: We're not acting. We really are like this.
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Dracula: I am Count Dracula!
Yakko: Didn't you use to teach math on Sesame Street?
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Yakko: Well It's that time agian
Dot: To make fun of the Disney Channel?
Miles. I'm not ynto spyleyn wyth Ys.
Miles. 'I' is a beautiful letter.
Miles because Myles looks illiterate.
Ditto, and surnamey to me.
I definitely prefer Miles over Myles, to me replacing i's with y's is a bit trendy and feminine, plus it looks rather strange with only one vowel.
Miles
Miles. Myles looks trendee and misspelled. I don't like the name period, but Miles is better.
Miles. Myles looks trendee and misspelled. I don't like the name period, but Miles is better.