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HelpRe: My first PNL
in reply to a message by peregrine
That's a very organized list! I wish I could find my very first list of names I ever loved. But if it existed I probably destroyed it, because I felt oddly ashamed of my name obsession when I was young.
If I try to think back as far as I can, around age 7 to 9, I can distinctly remember liking...
Hillary
Aaron (this was the first name I ever remember liking in terms of a "name for a child" but I didn't tend to look at names that way most of the time)
Colin
Galatea (although I mispronounced it as "ga-LAY-sha" for like a decade, how embarrassing)
Annabelle
Charlotte
Denison (I "came up with" this one myself, from a surname)
Norah
Sylvia
Tabitha
Pamina
Millicent
Akhsah (this one is burned into my brain because my little name book said the meaning was "a tinkling anklet" and I really loved that.)
That's all I can recall clearly. I remember my taste being heavily influenced by stuff like mythology, classical music, art, and books. I used to read this huge illustrated encyclopedia we had, and that exposed me to a lot. It's probably why my taste is so "bookish" even to this day.
If I try to think back as far as I can, around age 7 to 9, I can distinctly remember liking...
Hillary
Aaron (this was the first name I ever remember liking in terms of a "name for a child" but I didn't tend to look at names that way most of the time)
Colin
Galatea (although I mispronounced it as "ga-LAY-sha" for like a decade, how embarrassing)
Annabelle
Charlotte
Denison (I "came up with" this one myself, from a surname)
Norah
Sylvia
Tabitha
Pamina
Millicent
Akhsah (this one is burned into my brain because my little name book said the meaning was "a tinkling anklet" and I really loved that.)
That's all I can recall clearly. I remember my taste being heavily influenced by stuff like mythology, classical music, art, and books. I used to read this huge illustrated encyclopedia we had, and that exposed me to a lot. It's probably why my taste is so "bookish" even to this day.
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Thank you! It’s a pity your older lists are lost or destroyed, I always like looking though my old names lists when I find them.
I like Hillary, Aaron, Sylvia and Millicent- very good taste! With Galatea, I can relate to the mispronouncing- I definitely wasn’t pronouncing Calliope right at the time, and I can remember pronouncing Eloise and EEL-OYS for a long time. It’s cool to me how people’s different tastes varied as kids, how they’ve changed and what sorts of things influenced them at the time!
I like Hillary, Aaron, Sylvia and Millicent- very good taste! With Galatea, I can relate to the mispronouncing- I definitely wasn’t pronouncing Calliope right at the time, and I can remember pronouncing Eloise and EEL-OYS for a long time. It’s cool to me how people’s different tastes varied as kids, how they’ve changed and what sorts of things influenced them at the time!