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Help[Opinions] Re: Elinor
in reply to a message by Lily
Yup, yup. I don't mind Eleanor, but I'm firmly on Team Elinor. I agree that they feel totally different. Eleanor is somewhat cold and dour, while Elinor is so much warmer. It has a better personality.
Summer Rose is corny and really does sound like a Glade Plug-In. I just don't think Summer can be combined with a naturey name like Rose or Rain without sounding silly. While you're right that not everyone who meets her will know her full name, middle names do come up, and I would personally hate to give a child a combo she would have reason to feel embarrassed about.
Summer Rose is corny and really does sound like a Glade Plug-In. I just don't think Summer can be combined with a naturey name like Rose or Rain without sounding silly. While you're right that not everyone who meets her will know her full name, middle names do come up, and I would personally hate to give a child a combo she would have reason to feel embarrassed about.
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True, the thing is you never know what a child will be embarrassed about. I didn't know for years that the first name of my friend is Mary. She went by her middle name because she hated Mary. I never found out because it didn't even appear on our class lists, just the name she went by. Personally, I would like to be called Summer Rain and would be embarrassed by something like Patience, Piper (I just think it sounds super silly) or Mckayla. And there are many people who think these names are perfectly fine. Piper is quite common. It just depends on what you like. As I can't know which names my daughter will like all I can do is choose one I like and explain to her why I love it so much in the hope that she'll love it too.
Argh I wish I liked other combos, but the image is so beautiful. I've been trying to pair it with some other faves but it never seems right.
Argh I wish I liked other combos, but the image is so beautiful. I've been trying to pair it with some other faves but it never seems right.
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It would be too risky for me. To my mind, it's one thing to pick non-jokey, non-phrase name like Summer Annabel or Summer Zoe and hope she likes it and quite another to pick a name you already know has a high cheeziness factor and cross your fingers.
Despite the fact that you like the combo and the images it invokes, you actually don't seem that comfortable with it. When your posts about a combo say things like only her friends will know her middle name anyway, I could hide my names if I wanted to/I have a friend who kept her name a secret--Summer Rose could do the same, and I'll just have to explain myself and hope she thinks like me, you might be looking at signs that it's a name best left as a GP. There are better Summer combos out there. You just haven't found them yet.
Despite the fact that you like the combo and the images it invokes, you actually don't seem that comfortable with it. When your posts about a combo say things like only her friends will know her middle name anyway, I could hide my names if I wanted to/I have a friend who kept her name a secret--Summer Rose could do the same, and I'll just have to explain myself and hope she thinks like me, you might be looking at signs that it's a name best left as a GP. There are better Summer combos out there. You just haven't found them yet.
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