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It's beautiful, one of my favorites. Edit: nicknames Prim and Rosie

This message was edited 3/13/2021, 9:44 PM

The nickname "Prim" is fun to say, but it most definitely connotes an image. As strongly as "Pris" or "Priss" for Priscilla. It's fun to call your dog Prim or Ms. Prim but it might be more annoying on a human.

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Primrose is the surname of the most famous violist in the world, who taught two of my major teachers. When I found a dog Primrose at the shelter, it felt like fate. Because of the surname-thing, I used to mix Primrose into male combos back in my early days on this message board. I rather like it. For example -

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William Primrose (the violist - he's referred to so much as Bill Primrose, or Meester Primrose by my heavily-accented teachers who studied with him)
Simon Primrose
Frederick Primrose
George Primrose

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I find it has a pleasantly stuffy and formal, yet softening effect as a male name. It's quite surprising, but after hearing it in that context often enough you get kind of used to it. There aren't many floral surnames, so not many names that could potentially straddle conventional gender mechanisms like that, and I think Primrose is fun there.

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I never read Hunger Games but I was posting about it about the same time, and it irritated me that no one was seeing it MY way even though my way was very particular.

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Anyway, I think Primrose is a nice name to say. It's like all those other old names - you have to say it kind of quietly, your mouth really twists around it, you have to murmur it. The main beat of it is "Rih-Ro," which is already awkward, and then you decorate it with all those complicated soft consonants. Yet it's actually a very beautiful word with a beautiful meaning.

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TL;DR It's a lovely name but the idea of a person being nicknamed Prim puts me off it.

well, it's sure more usable than Katniss, Peeta, and Gale (which is technically also usable, but I hate it)! lol

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Anyway, I think it's a fine name - very pretty. Just don't call her Prim - my (first) seventh grade science teacher (the one I had before I moved) was surnamed Primm, and she wasn't very nice.

My son goes to daycare at "The Primrose School," which is a chain of daycares in the US. While these are high quality daycares, I still think the name is ridiculously pretentious. Not as bad as The Goddard School, their main competition though.

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Anyway, that's what I think of now. So, I think of mediocre suburbia and and chain daycares that are just daycares but try to sound like prep schools but that are not primrosy or cute or gardeny at all but in actuality are next door to tire stores and Starbucks drive-thrus.

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After that I think of The Hunger Games.

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The "prim" part of the name sort of turns me off.

I know a 2 year old Primrose and also two girls who have it as a middle name. I definitely prefer it in the mn spot.

I think it would make a great middle name. As a first name it doesn't do much for me. It's like Isabella on acid.

It's when you want Rose, but it's overused, so you get Primrose or Rosamund instead,
but you never use the full name, just same old Rosie.

Primrose is so pretty and lovely and sweet, I love it. I’d probably prefer it as a mn, simply because I’d hate the nn Prim! But I guess you could insist on the nn Rosie, which is also adorable.

I find it unpleasant. Don't like Rose much, and making it Prim doesn't help. Plus, there was a serial-killer GP in England who used to murder his elderly patients and give their jewellery to his wife, who was herself a Primrose and, it seems, must have known where all the stuff came from, but never turned a hair.

I love Primrose! It's delicate but not limp or powerless. I also quite like Primula.

I think its nice

Nothing big or special. I prefer Prima or Rosemary.