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in reply to a message by Perrine
Savannah sounds sort of Southern to me because of Savannah, GA I guess. I've never met a Savannah but I think I'd expect a white or mixed race gal. Middle class. Not necessarily a Southerner, that's just an association I have with the name. Nothing particularly negative about it.
In her 20s.
It doesn't seem dated - yet? since it hasn't been a huge top 20 fad. I don't think it seems "classic" like, say, Georgia, but neither is it entirely "modern" ... it's kinda like Samantha. It fits with the nature-name fashion, although by accident and it doesn't seem like a nature-name so much as a place-name. The -ah reminds me of Mariah and Sarah and Hannah ... makes it more classic-"looking."
I think if a Savannah didn't want to use nicknames it'd be easy to just refuse them, since there isn't one that people automatically expect. It'd be like with Elizabeth - you have to ask if she's Liz or Ellie or Beth, and if you're just told Elizabeth, you don't guess.
- mirfak
In her 20s.
It doesn't seem dated - yet? since it hasn't been a huge top 20 fad. I don't think it seems "classic" like, say, Georgia, but neither is it entirely "modern" ... it's kinda like Samantha. It fits with the nature-name fashion, although by accident and it doesn't seem like a nature-name so much as a place-name. The -ah reminds me of Mariah and Sarah and Hannah ... makes it more classic-"looking."
I think if a Savannah didn't want to use nicknames it'd be easy to just refuse them, since there isn't one that people automatically expect. It'd be like with Elizabeth - you have to ask if she's Liz or Ellie or Beth, and if you're just told Elizabeth, you don't guess.
- mirfak
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