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[Opinions] Rita
What do you think of Rita, as a name on its own (not a Margaret)?
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Yes!!!!! Just, yes! I love it!
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I like Rita only as a nn. Funny, today my eldest (Kate) was telling me she wanted to name a dd Margarita and call her Rita. I admit the idea would take some getting used to but I think I like it. ;-)
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Well, I don't like it.
It sounds harsh, maybe because the only one I've ever met was harsh. She was a lunchlady in my school.
And "rita" it also the Swedsih word for "draw", so I have a hrd time seeing it as a name.
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really!"draw" as in "sketch; to make art" draw? If so, I think I might love Rita.
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"draw" as in "draw with crayons" :)
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fantasticRita is going on my list. Thanks!
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Lovely Rita, meter maidThat's immediately what I think of.It's okay, but it's also a little dated and plain.
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Good song!Can't say I know many other people who know it, and that includes the majority of Beatles fans I know, who say they are fans but only know the #1 hits and other most famous songs; really annoying, I find.
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*angry face* You're not a Beatles fan if you don't know Lovely Rita. It's an awesome song on only one of their most iconic albums of all time! (I own 23 Beatles albums, I'm a little obsessed.
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Exactly-now I have that song in my head.
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I kind of like it...
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This isn't really my taste, but that doesn't mean it isn't a lovely name. It can easily stand alone and I prefer it than just being a nickname for Margaret.
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my great-grandmother's name!I appreciate Rita, and it was refreshing to meet a Rita my own age when I was in university - it made me realize how "vintage" the name is. It does have a nice touch of hollywood glam to it, a la Rita Hayworth (and my Gramma-Gramma, as we call her, is a total drama queen too - like "I simply cannot abide chocolate drizzled on a plate with lemon pie on it- that's utter foolishness, take it away" drama queen [actual gramma-gramma quote])It seems like a high-strung, flitty name. Both my great grandmother and the young Rita I knew were fretful beauties, stamping their tiny feet and tossing their pretty heads over some affront. Which really gives it a thoroughbred feel. High glam, high maintentance, highly beautiful and refined. I really prefer it as its own name and not a nn for Margaret.
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it's my grammie's nameRita Virginia.Her family always called her Genie though...
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