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I spoke to a Christine today who said she prefers to be called Cricket. It reminded me of the fact that there was a character named Cricket on the soap opera "As The World Turns" back in the 1980s.
I've always somewhat liked it even though crickets, like almost all insects, squick me out. On the other hand, masses of them outside on a summer night do sound nice. Not just one in your house, though, that's annoying. I don't know, I guess I think Cricket is cheerful.
What do you think of Cricket? Is it suitable only as a nickname?
I've always somewhat liked it even though crickets, like almost all insects, squick me out. On the other hand, masses of them outside on a summer night do sound nice. Not just one in your house, though, that's annoying. I don't know, I guess I think Cricket is cheerful.
What do you think of Cricket? Is it suitable only as a nickname?
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As long as I remember I’ve liked the name Cricket. I can’t remember where I heard it first, perhaps in a children’s book?
Christine is neat full name for Cricket!
Christine is neat full name for Cricket!
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It could work as an affectionate nickname, but it's ridiculous and cruel as a first name.
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Busy Phillips named one of her children (girl) Cricket. I can't wrap my head around it. She has another girl called Birdie, lol.
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As an insect? No, definitely not fit for human use. They're no more (or less) cheerful than cicadas, or even flies on window-panes. And Dickens used the cricket on the hearth as an emblem of the kind of sweet, insipid woman who bustles about making tea and never imagining herself getting married.
As a game ... OK, I know it's not much known in the US, or Canada, but the rest of the English-speaking world has very different impressions of Cricket!
As a game ... OK, I know it's not much known in the US, or Canada, but the rest of the English-speaking world has very different impressions of Cricket!
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I love it as a nickname, hate it as a given name. It reminds me of my talking Cricket doll from my childhood.
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Only as a NN, I think there was a cricket on young and the restless too and her name was Christine
This message was edited 3/23/2020, 1:39 PM
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I know a Cricket. She's probably in her eighties now and her real name is Ollie. Her husband, who I think is either Charles or Robert, is nicknamed Tick. Sounds like they run a bug farm. I have no idea why they're called those names and I'm not sure I want to know.
It's a cute nn, I guess, but not appropriate as a full name and I don't think it's appropriate outside the family and very close friends for anybody much over elementary school age.
I also knew a dog named Cricket.
It's a cute nn, I guess, but not appropriate as a full name and I don't think it's appropriate outside the family and very close friends for anybody much over elementary school age.
I also knew a dog named Cricket.
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Cricket & Tick, lol.
This message was edited 3/22/2020, 6:55 PM
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Reminds me of Rickety Cricket from "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia", which isn't the best association to have. I guess it's kind of cute for a woman, though.
This message was edited 3/22/2020, 4:36 PM
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