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in reply to a message by Perrine
The nickname "Prim" is fun to say, but it most definitely connotes an image. As strongly as "Pris" or "Priss" for Priscilla. It's fun to call your dog Prim or Ms. Prim but it might be more annoying on a human.
Primrose is the surname of the most famous violist in the world, who taught two of my major teachers. When I found a dog Primrose at the shelter, it felt like fate. Because of the surname-thing, I used to mix Primrose into male combos back in my early days on this message board. I rather like it. For example -
William Primrose (the violist - he's referred to so much as Bill Primrose, or Meester Primrose by my heavily-accented teachers who studied with him)
Simon Primrose
Frederick Primrose
George Primrose
I find it has a pleasantly stuffy and formal, yet softening effect as a male name. It's quite surprising, but after hearing it in that context often enough you get kind of used to it. There aren't many floral surnames, so not many names that could potentially straddle conventional gender mechanisms like that, and I think Primrose is fun there.
I never read Hunger Games but I was posting about it about the same time, and it irritated me that no one was seeing it MY way even though my way was very particular.
Anyway, I think Primrose is a nice name to say. It's like all those other old names - you have to say it kind of quietly, your mouth really twists around it, you have to murmur it. The main beat of it is "Rih-Ro," which is already awkward, and then you decorate it with all those complicated soft consonants. Yet it's actually a very beautiful word with a beautiful meaning.
TL;DR It's a lovely name but the idea of a person being nicknamed Prim puts me off it.
Primrose is the surname of the most famous violist in the world, who taught two of my major teachers. When I found a dog Primrose at the shelter, it felt like fate. Because of the surname-thing, I used to mix Primrose into male combos back in my early days on this message board. I rather like it. For example -
William Primrose (the violist - he's referred to so much as Bill Primrose, or Meester Primrose by my heavily-accented teachers who studied with him)
Simon Primrose
Frederick Primrose
George Primrose
I find it has a pleasantly stuffy and formal, yet softening effect as a male name. It's quite surprising, but after hearing it in that context often enough you get kind of used to it. There aren't many floral surnames, so not many names that could potentially straddle conventional gender mechanisms like that, and I think Primrose is fun there.
I never read Hunger Games but I was posting about it about the same time, and it irritated me that no one was seeing it MY way even though my way was very particular.
Anyway, I think Primrose is a nice name to say. It's like all those other old names - you have to say it kind of quietly, your mouth really twists around it, you have to murmur it. The main beat of it is "Rih-Ro," which is already awkward, and then you decorate it with all those complicated soft consonants. Yet it's actually a very beautiful word with a beautiful meaning.
TL;DR It's a lovely name but the idea of a person being nicknamed Prim puts me off it.
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