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Help[Opinions] Re: Tuppence & Temperance
in reply to a message by Belphoebe
Tuppance is an old timey UK slang for lady bits. It just is.
I've heard tup-pance and too-pence and being born after the time of the two-penny-bit by quite a bit, I have no idea which it is. The former screams tupperware and the latter makes me thinking of 'having to spend a penny' (pee).
Either way I really dislike it, I think it's very cutesy with potentially unfortunate connotations and only really fit as a slightly embarrassing nickname that the owner eventually grows out of when they're no longer seen as a 'little girl'.
Temperance is ok in that it is dourly Puritan but can be subverted to be cooly witchy and unexpected. I like it in combos with unexpected names but don't think I'd like it any more in real life. I have met a Temperance, she was a strange girl who laughed about her dog killing animals but preached weird American-Puritan-style values rarely seen here in the UK, she never cut her hair and was very conservative. She went by Tempy, which I think is a weirdly lumpy nickname. It soured me on the name in practice, but I still like it put with things like Hecate and Alecto and Lilith to make something over the top Puritan-witchy.
I've heard tup-pance and too-pence and being born after the time of the two-penny-bit by quite a bit, I have no idea which it is. The former screams tupperware and the latter makes me thinking of 'having to spend a penny' (pee).
Either way I really dislike it, I think it's very cutesy with potentially unfortunate connotations and only really fit as a slightly embarrassing nickname that the owner eventually grows out of when they're no longer seen as a 'little girl'.
Temperance is ok in that it is dourly Puritan but can be subverted to be cooly witchy and unexpected. I like it in combos with unexpected names but don't think I'd like it any more in real life. I have met a Temperance, she was a strange girl who laughed about her dog killing animals but preached weird American-Puritan-style values rarely seen here in the UK, she never cut her hair and was very conservative. She went by Tempy, which I think is a weirdly lumpy nickname. It soured me on the name in practice, but I still like it put with things like Hecate and Alecto and Lilith to make something over the top Puritan-witchy.
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