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in reply to a message by ✧･ﾟ: *Magpie*:･ﾟ✧
So colorful and fruity, lol.
Burl would have fit right in with Pearl, Beryl, and Bert names.
I expect Pink / Pinkney probably had a surname vibe back then. Now I think it'd seem kind of punk.
I like Lemon. I feel like there must be a modern one or two that I've heard of. It's a bit like Cherry or Clement or Lennon but yellow.
I'm guessing Shedrick was more based on Shadrach than Cedric. I can't judge, because I do like Meshach and Cedric, but I'd prefer those.
Lafayette sounds like a military/leader/place name (from both American revolutionary and civil wars). Not really surprising to me, especially for the time period. I think the sound is pleasant and familiar, but it sounds old-south to me, which feels a little awkward.
Wellington seems similar to Lafayette but funnier considering Napoleon was also semi-popular around this time.
Doc sounds backwoodsy to me now, but titles-as-names still happen. Doc Watson is a famous banjo player.
Orange is interesting. For all I know, it could be a nature name, but I'd guess it relates to someone famous (William of Orange is the only person I can think of though) or a place.
Flem is one I don't understand at all. Like phlegm, or Flemish? Or, Fleming? I feel like Fleming would have been better, if it's from that.
Minor is also weird. It seems like Junior, but why not use Junior...
Judson's mostly boring to me, and/or similar to modern Hudson. Jud is like a cliche tough but pitiful farm guy name to me because of the movie Oklahoma, which has a song mocking "poor Jud..." (it was probably cliche in the mid 1900s, when that was made, too).
Ransom seems funny in an unfortunate way. I guess it's used because it's a surname. When you think about meanings, though, Giselle isn't much different. The sound itself is not that bad.
I have no reference for Isom, except isometric. It's another surname, I guess? I don't dislike the sound.
I think Craig is extremely rough hewn and hard-bitten, in sound and meaning. It wouldn't have had familiarity going for it back then either.
~ song of the week: "21. Night. Monday" by Erika Lundmoen
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Burl would have fit right in with Pearl, Beryl, and Bert names.
I expect Pink / Pinkney probably had a surname vibe back then. Now I think it'd seem kind of punk.
I like Lemon. I feel like there must be a modern one or two that I've heard of. It's a bit like Cherry or Clement or Lennon but yellow.
I'm guessing Shedrick was more based on Shadrach than Cedric. I can't judge, because I do like Meshach and Cedric, but I'd prefer those.
Lafayette sounds like a military/leader/place name (from both American revolutionary and civil wars). Not really surprising to me, especially for the time period. I think the sound is pleasant and familiar, but it sounds old-south to me, which feels a little awkward.
Wellington seems similar to Lafayette but funnier considering Napoleon was also semi-popular around this time.
Doc sounds backwoodsy to me now, but titles-as-names still happen. Doc Watson is a famous banjo player.
Orange is interesting. For all I know, it could be a nature name, but I'd guess it relates to someone famous (William of Orange is the only person I can think of though) or a place.
Flem is one I don't understand at all. Like phlegm, or Flemish? Or, Fleming? I feel like Fleming would have been better, if it's from that.
Minor is also weird. It seems like Junior, but why not use Junior...
Judson's mostly boring to me, and/or similar to modern Hudson. Jud is like a cliche tough but pitiful farm guy name to me because of the movie Oklahoma, which has a song mocking "poor Jud..." (it was probably cliche in the mid 1900s, when that was made, too).
Ransom seems funny in an unfortunate way. I guess it's used because it's a surname. When you think about meanings, though, Giselle isn't much different. The sound itself is not that bad.
I have no reference for Isom, except isometric. It's another surname, I guess? I don't dislike the sound.
I think Craig is extremely rough hewn and hard-bitten, in sound and meaning. It wouldn't have had familiarity going for it back then either.
~ song of the week: "21. Night. Monday" by Erika Lundmoen
https://youtu.be/kRHKR-_e-fA
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