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I don't like Mona at all - in an Australian accent it's homophonic with "moaner", which is awful.

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Clovis is very cute, and I've been trying to find a story to use it in for years. I've always thought that Clovis & Quentin would make a cute sibset if set in the right era.

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♦ Chrisell ♦

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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.

Clovis is kind of cute to me, but I doubt I'd use it ever. Certainly has character appeal though. Hmm..

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Mona.
Love it. We use it as a nickname for Harmony, but we pronounce it like "Monna" instead of how the Mona Lisa is pronounced.

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You could use it as a nickname for...
Harmonia
Diamond
Monday
Anemone
Monet
Monika / Monica
Simone / Simona /etc
Ramona

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-Seda*
:)

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This message was edited 9/26/2006, 4:48 PM

I don't like Monique much (or Clovis, sorry) but I like Mona, esp. as a nn for Ramona. I had a friend named Ramona Camille who went by Mona. :)

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~Heather~

I think Mona is strong enough to stand on its own. It doesn't have that cutesy factor "too nickname-y" names have.

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But, if you prefer it as a NN, here are some names it could be a nn for:

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Desdemona
Simona
Ramona
Anemone
Harmony
Pomona
Montserrat
Raimonda

I like Clovis, although I prefer it on a girl, rhyming with Lovis. And Hovis, come to think of it. I would like that on a boy, if it weren't for the bread!

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I like Mona, I know a ten year old named this as her full fn and an 18 year old called Ramona nn "Mona". WDYT to Ramona?

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This message was edited 9/26/2006, 10:36 AM

I prefer Mona by itself. Pretty.

Don't like Mona or Clovis.

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H

Mona is my great aunts full name it can be just a name on its own not a nickname

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Sean H

I think Clovis is horrible...

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For a boy or a girl. It sounds like something that grows under your fingernail and turns it green.

There's always Monica or Monika, and like Starla Roxanne said it's feasible that it be a nn for Ramona. There are also Desdemona, Simona, and Pomona that end in -mona. I could also see Marijona, Matrona, Meiriona, or maybe Monserrat (the way I'm saying it, it's a Mahn rather than Mohn sound, but Monica is the same way) working as full names for Mona.

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**Edited to add Anemone, Harmony, Morana, Morgana, and Harmonia as other possibilities. Some are a stretch but Mona is made up of some pretty basic sounds, so I could maybe see it.

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**Edited again to say that I don't care for Clovis, but I think Clovia is an adorable name for a girl and that Clove might make an interesting, if perhaps a bit spicy, female name as well.

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This message was edited 9/26/2006, 8:28 AM

I don't care for Mona, it sounds exactly like somebody who moans a lot. But I think it stands well enough on its own, you don't see it used much, but when you do it's usually the ful name.
Could be a nn for Ramona.