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I always and instinctively think: Alison. Even though, when I was at school, there were two Allison people and one Alison in my class. Allison is needlessly complicated, and the one-L version shows the name's origin as a diminutive for Alice very clearly. If I recall, two of them were sometimes called Allie and one of the Allisons never had a nn. Doesn't Allison derive from 'son of Alexander'? It certainly is a lnfn, but they aren't much of a fad where I live; not yet, anyway.

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I love Alison! It's unusable for family reasons - DH had a really odd aunt - so I'd have settled for Alice if anything, but Alison is just as good.