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HelpRe: Hester
in reply to a message by guru
Well... on paper it has hipness. A character name. I can picture an icily sleek Hester.
But if I try (and I'm trying really hard to imagine it as cool) to picture it as the name of anyone real, who I actually know, including the cutest young women and girls I know? It sounds as underdoggy and unfortunate as a chin zit and flat feet, and vaguely disagreeable too. It's not half as bad as Esther, but it's still dowdy and unappealing, in a way similar to (but not the same as) Hazel.
I guess maybe I just don't like the hissy, whispery sound. And I think the obvious Hawthorne reference seems too self-conscious. I think Easter sounds more "icily sleek" and suitable to real people in 2012. Even Vesta sounds about twice as realistic and usable to me.
But if I try (and I'm trying really hard to imagine it as cool) to picture it as the name of anyone real, who I actually know, including the cutest young women and girls I know? It sounds as underdoggy and unfortunate as a chin zit and flat feet, and vaguely disagreeable too. It's not half as bad as Esther, but it's still dowdy and unappealing, in a way similar to (but not the same as) Hazel.
I guess maybe I just don't like the hissy, whispery sound. And I think the obvious Hawthorne reference seems too self-conscious. I think Easter sounds more "icily sleek" and suitable to real people in 2012. Even Vesta sounds about twice as realistic and usable to me.
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Harper's just plain ugly as a fn to begin w/ and horrid on a girl, but Hester somehow sounds even worse to me. Heather, though nms, is considerably better. Plus, I wouldn't want a child to somehow be assoiciated w/ the current PM's bad decisions on certain things (which there are some major ones of), so even if it weren't unattractive as a fn, it would prob'ly be out for me.
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Although Heather suffers from the same sort of gustiness as Hester, it doesn't hiss bitterly like Hester seems to do, to me. The -ther pleases me more than the -ster. YMMV. Harper is not more appealing to me than Hester. Harper sounds like it's trying to be statusy, while Hester just sounds homely. But I guess Hester sounds better than Harper, because Harper reminds me of harpies.
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