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Gerald is a nothing name, with a faint flavour of red hair and freckles and a golfing hat.

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Patricia is serenely lovely, but completely unusable for nickname reasons. I've never met a Patricia who wasn't either Pat, Patty, Patsy, Tish, Trish or Trisha!

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Albert is almost a GP I suppose: where I live, and in today's world, I wouldn't use it as a fn but I like it a lot and would happily consider it as a mn. At least then it wouldn't become Al, Bert or Bertie. OK, Al isn't too bad, but not good enough to take the risk and use Albert.

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Sylvia is lovely, I just hear the song every time - the Shakespeare one, not Sylvia's Mother! The only Sylvia I've known well was in my class at junior school: she was large and clumsy and unattractive, and seriously unwashed with BO, but a very kind, shy, pleasant girl. Not a classic Sylvia, but the name is so lovely I didn't mind the association at all.