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I think it's pretty, but it seems very weak to me--too delicate. It's not something I would use, but I wouldn't call it bad either.

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L names on women... I tend to avoid them.

Do you know the Lucy M Boston children's books about Green Knowe? Linnet is a recurring girl name in the family who live in the house, and that makes me like it very much although usually I'm not too keen on bird names except Robin (which isn't!).

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I love it ^_^ It's on my list of favs.
I say it LIN-it too like the bird, not like Lynette. I don't like Lynette at all which is kind of odd as the sounds are so close.

I love it, and have done since I was a kid. There was this BBC mini-series called "The Children of Green Knowe" that used to get shown occasionally in Australia in the 80s, and one of the kids in that was called Linnet (she was a ghost from the 1600s).

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It's now going to be my main character's name in the sequel to The Damn Novel :D

I love Linnet, but I'd worry that anyone who used it would have to constantly fight against the Lynette pronunciation.

I like it - it's quite a nice sound in my accent, LIN et. There was a Linnet in a favourite childhood book of mine, but I've never come across it irl; although it has a long history, it's fairly rare. Apparently it used to be unisex here, like other bird-names.

I like it alright on paper. A little bird, an -et name, a Lin-name, seems lovely.

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But I think that IRL I would not like it as much. For some reason it makes me think of a coffee can. Maybe it's the coffee can my mom had for collecting dryer LINT, that I saw almost every day growing up. And the word minute. Just a minute, Linnet.

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Somehow it seems extremely plain, in an interesting way. Her sister Myrtle and her brother Elwood.

I don't like how it sounds (in my accent anyway!) and it reminds me of the word 'lint'. I prefer Linnea, if I had to choose a Linn- name.

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It doesn't sound like a name. I really don't like it.

Linnet means "the tank top" in Swedish - so I don't like it as a name...

I think I read a book years ago about a child prostitute in old London named Linnet. I don't like it because it seems like a slurred mangling of Lynette, which I don't really like either but seems more natural to pronounce than Linnet.

I love it. I think it's so charming. And I've always thought of it as pronounced "LIN-et", not "lin-ETT", as in Lynette.

I like it. It looks very clean and calm.
I also don't like the [li-NET] pronunciation.