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Re: modest, organic feeling?
Really? I would think that Edgar is much weaker than Edwin...though maybe not as whiny. Edgar is more dumb and clunky (that "gar" part must be what does it). I do like Edgar, but I'd feel guiltier naming a boy Edgar than Edwin: I'd think it would be harder to pull off.
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there was a discussion the other night ...At my house, talking about baseball, where Phillip mentioned there's a lot of Hispanic ballplayers named Edgar, and he was laughing about the idea of somebody in Mexico or the Dominican Republic snapping their fingers and going "Caramba! Let's name him Edgar!"
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I had an uncle Edgar, one of my mother's brothers. He was a bit of a going-from-one -job-to -another, and a drinker.Very nice looking man.Just like in a story, though,in a big industrial disaster, he saved a fellow worker's life, carrying him to safety,although his own leg was broken.
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I have a Honduran student named Edwin. I suppose it's an exotic foreign name to them, even though my only association before my student was my cousins' grandpa who died about 25 years ago. My student has darker, but not quite black, skin and short, curly hair. When one of the teachers met him last year, she said he looks like Gary Coleman.
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Not me. I think Edgar edges ahead of Edwin. I love her description of a "tiniest bit of dashingness". I agree. It's very very old-man... to the point of being cool (like Mortimer or Milton) to me. Though, that is obviously a personal opinion.

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This is great news! I thought Edgar would be universally thought of as ugly for sure.
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