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I'd think they got off really lightly!

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I find Sarah terminally boring, and if I meet another Elizabeth who goes by Liz, Elise/Elize or Ellie I'll gnash my fangs. Betsy is delightful, lighter and brighter than Betty, and Sally ... well, in today's world it's very unexpected as a nn, at least where I live. Here, Sarahs stay Sarah and Sallys start out as Sally. My father wanted to name me Sarah after his late mother, but my mother declined gracefully, which I'm really happy about. But I'd have been Sally in a heartbeat if they'd thought about it.

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While you're at it, what about Nancy and Polly? I've only ever known one Nancy, a British woman who went by Nan, and Nancy was her given name. And I know an Anna who was sometimes called Nan in the family as a child. I like Nancy a lot, it dances like Betsy. I had a distant aunt named Mary and always known as Polly; I like that very much too, but Molly (which appears twice on my husband's side of the family) has always seemed to be flabby and dull.