Message: "Thoughts on Ermelinda"

[Opinions] Thoughts on Ermelinda

by InVain34

11/22/2023, 1:41 AM

WDYT about the name Ermelinda. How about Melinda. Give some opinions. Thanks.

#Ermelinda

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- ShioTanbo1

11/24/2023, 9:25 AM

Ermelinda sounds witch-like and too old IMO, the "erm" is not pleasant. Melinda is a favorite of mine.

- InVain34

11/22/2023, 5:46 PM

Thank you for your comments.

- ari. +1

11/22/2023, 12:21 PM

Don't like either. Melinda is bland and saccharine and risks being shortened to dreadful Mindy. Ermelinda is what you call Melinda when you're not sure you can remember her name. Er- Melinda?

- ShioTanbo1

11/24/2023, 9:27 AM

I like Melinda and Mindy, although I would not nickname a Melinda Mindy unless they asked. I would be more likely to use Mel, Melly or Lindy. I do think "Er" makes it "dreadful", though.

- New_Chloë (New_Chloe)

11/22/2023, 10:35 AM

Ermelinda is great. It makes me think of "Ur-melinda". Like, the first Melinda, the earliest most ancient Melinda, from whence all Melindas originate.

I like Melinda a lot. I knew a very unique, artistic one in high school. She was a gentle but eccentric soul, so Melinda has that same gentle-but-wacky spirit.

- Wordsmith

11/22/2023, 9:15 AM

I love its hopeless, unwieldy majesty.

Melinda is lovely in a totally divergent way: approachable, friendly, bookish, dependable.

- Kerilyntaryn21

11/22/2023, 2:36 AM

Don't like Ermelinda. Like Melinda though

- Canielle

11/22/2023, 2:31 AM

Definitely interesting though I couldn’t use it. Ermengarde and Ermintrude are better known here thanks to a tv series from I think the 1960s called The Magic Roundabout. I’ve just checked and it was 1965-1977.

Melinda is okay but for me still heavily associated with The Ghos Whisperer tv series.

This message was edited 11/22/2023, 2:34 AM

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