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HelpRe: Humphrey vs. Laurence
in reply to a message by Billina
Humphrey would be good for a camel, as in the Just So Stories. On a human, it screams NERD. Although the only Humphrey I ever knew went to the Antarctic with a South African scientific team for, I think, a year ...
Laurence is tricky. I prefer the spelling to Lawrence, but then I keep hearing it in French. And a French friend of mine, when she found out she couldn't have children, tried to cheer herself up by saying that she'd always wanted to name a daughter Laurence but since she was, then, living in England with her English husband, this would not have been practical at all. And Laura and Laure weren't nearly as good!
IRL I'd use Lawrance, which was the ln of DH's only aunt; she and her husband were very special people indeed and were also childless, so ...
Laurence is tricky. I prefer the spelling to Lawrence, but then I keep hearing it in French. And a French friend of mine, when she found out she couldn't have children, tried to cheer herself up by saying that she'd always wanted to name a daughter Laurence but since she was, then, living in England with her English husband, this would not have been practical at all. And Laura and Laure weren't nearly as good!
IRL I'd use Lawrance, which was the ln of DH's only aunt; she and her husband were very special people indeed and were also childless, so ...
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