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No, you're not alone

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~Heather~

Nope, I agree(m)

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I've always thought it looked like a messed up form of Kelly.

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-Seda*

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"Fleece" Navidad!

I agree

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Keely is so babyish, and it sounds too much like "kiwi" for my liking.

count me, also, as "not a Keely fan"

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The look and sound of Keely is sort of trivial, childish, and small to me.

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It's not so bad that it'd bother me every time I addressed the person, or that I'd have an urge to make fun of it, or find it unbelievable on a doctor or judge - I just think it's a disappointingly cutesy sounding name on paper, without much character. It flunks the lover-moaning-it test. Nice for a pet, perhaps.

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Keelin has its place, and an additional helping of dignity, but it seems trendy to me too.

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- chazda

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Same here

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To "keel" is to capsize or a part of a ship (among other things), or "keel over" as in faint.

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Not really anything I want my children to think of every time they hear their names.

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And Keelie and Keelin are worse than Keely as they look even more made up in a negative way...

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But I'd pay you to use "Over" as a mn for Keelin as in "Keelin' Over." (jk jk)

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:)

PHEW! nt = )

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* pronounced EH-vah =)
Elijah Morris 6.23.99
Rahine Miguel 6.29.05
#3 EDD 7.09.06

No, I don't like them either

No, you're not!

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Keely, Keeley, Keeleigh, etc. just seem like an extension of the popular Kylies, Kaylies, Callies, Kelseys, etc.

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Plus, when I visualize a Keely, I think of an excessively perky, ditzy girl/woman.

No, I don't really like it either

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It's very, very trendy and sounds quite childish to me. Although I do have to say that I prefer Keely (pr. KEEL-ee) over Kelly for a girl.

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Keelin's another matter. It's one of several Anglicisations of Caoilfhionn, and is the spelling closest to Caoilfhionn's pronunciation. So I think Keelin's alright for someone else, though it's not for me.

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EDIT: I just looked at BtN's entry for Keely, which says it's a variant of Kayley. I prefer it as an alternate form of Kelly, or else think of it as a purely non-etymologically based modern made-up name.

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Kayley's an Anglicisation of Caollaidhe, and spelled just Kayley it's trendy but alright imo. Kaylee / Kayleigh is just Kay + Lee / Leigh to me, and is unrelated to Kayley; ditto with Kayleah (KAY-lee-ah to me), only with Kay + Leah. Caileigh, Caleigh, Kaelee, ad nauseum are just bad misspellings of Kayley to me, and I can't think of anything good to say about them.

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Miranda
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This message was edited 12/3/2005, 5:45 PM

Blinded by the characters...

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Why all the extra symbols around your name? They're rather unnecessary. We already have a poster Caroline, so the Mae is needed, but it's distracting and excessive with all those other characters.

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Welcome to the boards. It's nice to jump right in, but an introduction would be cool.

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I love Josh Groban, too. Great quote.

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:)