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I feel like the only person in the world who can only think "olives" when I see or hear Oliver and the only person in the world who objects to it for that reason. And I love olives. I would imagine it would be worse for (what seems like) the majority of people who hate them, but noooooo.
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Olives are nice though. Olive trees are a nice image.
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Oddly, it does that to me too - even more than the name Olive. And Oliver makes me think of olives in martinis, particularly - rather than just olives. Probably because the name Oliver was very unusual when I was growing up, and when I heard it I connected it with the word because there wasn't much else to connect it to. And I first encountered olives in martinis, too. My parents' martinis, that is.
It's not what turns me off the name - I just don't like the sound of it in my accent. Sounds like all over, I'll love her, all of her.
It's not what turns me off the name - I just don't like the sound of it in my accent. Sounds like all over, I'll love her, all of her.
This message was edited 5/29/2018, 10:04 PM
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LOL, that's how I was first introduced to olives, too---my mother would always give me the olive out of her martini. (My father put lemon twists, not olives, in his martinis.) I grew up eating gin-soaked olives. I could have done without the gin flavor but I still liked the olives.
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It makes me think of olives too, but that’s a good thing for me. Of course I also love the name Olive so ...
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