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Re: Alvin Elwyn Evelyn
It is so funny to me how names can get ruined in that way. I suppose I know of Alvin and the chipmunks but the name is too dear for that to be my first thought. Chip and Dale are a thing but I can't say I think of them when I hear the name Dale. There must be a threshold of a name that is just odd enough it is ruined. Like Adolf is a cool name but it gets ruined. I mean it was probably fairly common in Germany but maybe only in Germany. Joeseph Stalin doesn't seem to have ruined Joeseph maybe because it was just way more common.

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Oh, I don’t mean the name is ruined! It’s just something to keep in mind. I’ve never heard the name Alvin used anywhere else, so that’s definitely part of it.