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If Rhodes were used as a first name in the English speaking world, I think it's natural to assume it's a surname-name, and to think (as I immediately would) of Cecil Rhodes and to be reminded of his more infamous aims.
Townes just seems like yet another British-surname name picked out to invoke the image that such names do.
It's not that I prefer it. I just think that the association with Rhodes makes Townes less bad than Rhodes.

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- mirfak