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The reason, I believe, why nobody used Evangeline for many decades was because it sounds so much like evangelist - an Evangeline would look up if she heard someone start to say "evangelist" or "evangelism" - and that word was in common use to refer to shouty TV preachers enriching themselves by frightening the elderly with homophobic rhetoric. People born later just don't seem to recognize the bad connotation. So I guess it won't matter to a child born today. But I still feel repelled by it. I think it sounds aggressive and it reminds me of the word avenge.

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- mirfak

This message was edited 8/16/2023, 1:26 PM