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You Say, You Think [Girls]
Just a few of my favourites...this isn't a sibset so some names are going to show up more than once. (Like Olive Matilda and Matilda Jane. Don't worry, I wouldn't name sisters that!)This is my daughter, Margaret Elaine. We call her Greta.
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You think:This is my daughter, Beatrice Jane.
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You think:This is my daughter, Audrey Tziporah.
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You think:This is my daughter, Matilda Jane.
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You think:This is my daughter, Jeanette Gloria.
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You think:This is my daughter, Olive Matilda.
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You think:This is my daughter, Astrid Signe.
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You think:This is my daughter, Frances Jane.
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You think:This is my daughter, Eloise Jeanette.
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You think:This is my daughter, Minerva Rosalind. We call her Minnie.
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You think:This is my daughter, Agatha Irene.
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You think:This is my daughter, Alice Shoshannah.
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You think:This is my daughter, Ingrid Beatrice.
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This is my daughter, Margaret Elaine. We call her Greta.
You say: I've met three Margarets before, but never one called Greta.
You think: I like Greta, but Elaine reminds me of my horrid aunt.This is my daughter, Beatrice Jane.
You say: What an adorable name.
You think: I like the pronunciation bee-ah-TREESEThis is my daughter, Audrey Tziporah.
You say: Audrey is a beautiful name. Where does her middle name originate from?
You think: Tziporah is an interesting name.This is my daughter, Matilda Jane.
You say: Hello, Matilda Jane.
You think: I'm tempted to call her by her full name because if flows well.This is my daughter, Jeanette Gloria.
You say: She is a beautiful girl.
You think: I truly dislike her name. I don't know why.This is my daughter, Olive Matilda.
You say: That's a lovely name.
You think: Olive reminds me of LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE. Matilda reminds me of that adorable girl in the Roald Dahl book.This is my daughter, Astrid Signe.
You say: My friend's name is Astrid as well. Her family calls her Ozzie.
You think: I hope the say OS-trid and not ASS-trid.This is my daughter, Frances Jane.
You say: Frances is a cute name.
You think: Is her brother John Francis from the other post?This is my daughter, Eloise Jeanette.
You say: Eloise is adorable. It reminds me of the little girl in the books.
You think: I don't like her middle name at all.This is my daughter, Minerva Rosalind. We call her Minnie.
You say: Minnie is a darling nickname.
You think: I love her middle name. This is my daughter, Agatha Irene.
You say: That's a sweet name.
You think: It's a bit old fashioned, but that's probably the point.This is my daughter, Alice Shoshannah.
You say: I love the traditional Alice instead of Allison.
You think: Alice is cute and Shoshannah reminds me of my friend Sousanne, pronounced so-john.This is my daughter, Ingrid Beatrice.
You say: Lovely name.
You think: I prefer Inghild.
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This is my daughter, Margaret Elaine. We call her Greta.
You say: Oh, howdy do Greta! A very distinguished name you've got.
You think: It's distinguished. I can't like Margaret, but I'm glad when other people use it. Elaine is nice, but it's kind of strange with Margaret for some reason.This is my daughter, Beatrice Jane.
You say: What a nice name.
You think: Am I crazy for not liking Beatrice? I know I should. So I'll approve of it. Jane is kind of filler but still refreshing in this day and age of frilly stupid fillers.This is my daughter, Audrey Tziporah.
You say: Oh, that's a very interesting middle name.
You think: Yeah, it is. I need to look that up on BtN when I get home. And Audrey - another one of those damn good names that I can't seem to like, ever. A guilty displeasure, if you will. Very interesting combination, this is!This is my daughter, Matilda Jane.
You say: Oh, that's lovely. Howdy doo!!!
You think: I recently became able to like Matilda and I'm very glad. :) I like this a lot.This is my daughter, Jeanette Gloria.
You say: Nice to meet you, Jeanette.
You think: Yawn. Jeanette bores me to death. Gloria's an interesting outburst, though. I love when other people are named it.This is my daughter, Olive Matilda.
You say: Oh, how delightfully old-world.
You think: (Some lady said this to me once, responding to the fact that I play viola.) It's a very handsome combo, but I'm not sure that's quite an appropriate compliment to give a little girl. Nevertheless, both names are very distinguished and old-world and I like this a lot.This is my daughter, Astrid Signe.
You say: Oh, Astrid! I love Astrid. And what's the middle name again?
You think: I love Astrid. But I have no idea how to pronounce Signe and therefore I can't say anything about it.This is my daughter, Frances Jane.
You say: Oh I love it!
You think: Ooh I love it!! Ooh!This is my daughter, Eloise Jeanette.
You say: Eloise, that's interesting.
You think: It is. I used to love Eloise. Jeanette is boring boring boring though.

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Signe is pronounced SIG-nee (the spelling Signy is probably clearer...oh well). I grew up knowing a lot of people with slightly odd names- Tziporah, Signe, Shoshannah, Zalman, Sylva, so they seem as ordinary to me as the Emily and Ellie I also grew up with.I get very negative reactions to Jeanette and so I expect my brief love affair with it will probably end soon...it's mostly brought on by the really wonderful Jeanette I know.Yeah...Jane is fillerish, isn't it? Sigh. I do like it as a FN as well, and it's honouring a Janice (my mum), but...yes, probably fillerish, seeing as I have at least three combinations I just love with it as the MN. Oh well.I adore the term guilty displeasure, it made me smile. Thanks so much for your comments!
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