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The "swill" part overpowers the God bit for me, or turns it into "God Swill" - it's so unpleasant it feels sacrilegious rather than pious. Like the name of a death metal band (or black metal? I can't remember which ones like using "satanic" imagery).
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This, it just looks and sounds like "God Swill". (Are you thinking of Godsmack maybe? Not death metal or black metal, but kind of a similar band name).
If we were all illiterate, and the name was just the sound "godz-wil", then it would come across as "God's Will". But since we can read and the name is a set of letters to us, we see "God Swill".
If we were all illiterate, and the name was just the sound "godz-wil", then it would come across as "God's Will". But since we can read and the name is a set of letters to us, we see "God Swill".
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I don't think illiteracy would make much difference in my case. I read it correctly, and then the swill part stood out to me when I thought of saying/hearing it. I feel it's more like whether able to read it or not, if I heard it directly in reference to a person, the swill association would seem less immediate.
This message was edited 4/6/2023, 12:09 PM
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This is a good point about reading vs. speaking and what we're most used to. I doubt the Puritans were that illiterate since reading their bible was presumably pretty important to them, but they surely did a lot less reading of names, compared to saying them!
I have the "swill" problem with the name Godswill, too.
Lol, now that you mentioned this, if I ever read of Godsmack again I'm going to find myself reading it as "God's mack."
Maybe modern people could spell it Godzwyl - haha that is kinda cool in a way?
I have the "swill" problem with the name Godswill, too.
Lol, now that you mentioned this, if I ever read of Godsmack again I'm going to find myself reading it as "God's mack."
Maybe modern people could spell it Godzwyl - haha that is kinda cool in a way?
This message was edited 4/6/2023, 1:16 AM
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Godzwylla?
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