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I far prefer Jean Louise. Scout has dated connotations of skilled explorers going out ahead of the soldiers and the colonialists who followed them, enabling everyone except the original inhabitants to appoint themselves kings of the wild Frontier... like something out of a 1930s history text book. Which, in today's world, should be an embarrassment, but actually all it says is "My parents went to school! They read a book in class! If I'd been a boy, they'd have named me Atticus!"