New Post
Search
Help[Opinions] Re: Boyd
in reply to a message by carmags
I like it. It has a Southern feel to me, I'm sure due to the association with the character in "Gone With the Wind." I like it quite a lot---it would make an offbeat choice, yet it's strong and masculine. For what it's worth, I prefer it to Walker.
Archived Thread - replies disabled
1
Replies
I agree with this, except less GWTW and more I'm-from-Alabama. It's a friendly sounding little name. Peter and Boyd is a cool sibset, and Boyd is really distinctive yet familiar.
I'd recommend this over Walker, reading your other post. I tried to imagine a parallel situation, like what if I as a violist named my son William and my daughter Primrose? non musicians and most non violists wouldn't pick it up, but no violist would ever think I wasn't purposefully paying homage to Bill Primrose. If I didn't like him, I'd definitely stay away from it.
I'd recommend this over Walker, reading your other post. I tried to imagine a parallel situation, like what if I as a violist named my son William and my daughter Primrose? non musicians and most non violists wouldn't pick it up, but no violist would ever think I wasn't purposefully paying homage to Bill Primrose. If I didn't like him, I'd definitely stay away from it.
1
I am from the South originally, so that association makes sense to me. I'm interested in your reference to GWTW. I haven't read it in a while--did the character Boyd belong to one of the neighboring families in the county?
1
Yes, he was Boyd Tarleton, the brother of the twins Stuart and Brent Tarleton. He's mentioned by Scarlett and the twins in the first chapter of the novel. Now that I think of it, I believe he is a character only referred to, and not seen or heard directly. Poor Boyd was killed in the war, of course. All four of the red-headed Tarleton boys were.
But yeah, that's why Boyd, along with Cade, Raiford, Dallas, has that Southern antebellum charm for me.
But yeah, that's why Boyd, along with Cade, Raiford, Dallas, has that Southern antebellum charm for me.
1
Wow - you have a god memory, I couldn't remember a Boyd in GWTW at all. What was the 4th brother called?
I have the same antebellum associations with Wade because of Scarlett's son.
I have the same antebellum associations with Wade because of Scarlett's son.
1
I think the fourth Tarleton brother was named Tom.
1
Quite right.
1
Now I'm remembering. Thanks.
1