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HelpRe: Phineas and Cillian.
in reply to a message by Martha
I don't like either one. I think Cillian is better. I'd rather spell it Killian or Kilian. I like Rillian more.
I wouldn't say Finn detracts from Phineas, because I'm pretty neutral towards Finn, compared to Phineas.
eta - why?
Phineas seems stuffy and deliberately antiquey / literary, not real-lifey. Could have a sister Bathsheba.
Cillian ... honestly makes me think of beer before anything. I don't think it's any more overbearingly Irish in the US than, say, Ronan. But it seems friendly and masculine. In this name the C-as-K thing doesn't appeal to me. It's okay... I can overlook the Kill thing totally if it's a guy's actual name. I guess what I don't like about it, might be just that there are so many K-l-n names, and it seems cousin to that genre, with Keelan, Ciaran / Kieran, Keegan and Kellan (which I like ok) etc.
- mirfak
I wouldn't say Finn detracts from Phineas, because I'm pretty neutral towards Finn, compared to Phineas.
eta - why?
Phineas seems stuffy and deliberately antiquey / literary, not real-lifey. Could have a sister Bathsheba.
Cillian ... honestly makes me think of beer before anything. I don't think it's any more overbearingly Irish in the US than, say, Ronan. But it seems friendly and masculine. In this name the C-as-K thing doesn't appeal to me. It's okay... I can overlook the Kill thing totally if it's a guy's actual name. I guess what I don't like about it, might be just that there are so many K-l-n names, and it seems cousin to that genre, with Keelan, Ciaran / Kieran, Keegan and Kellan (which I like ok) etc.
- mirfak
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