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[Opinions] Bill
I dunno if it's Sookie Stackhouse or what, but I like this dang name. I think it's really handsome. I kind of want a kid named Bill. Billy sometimes, I guess, but as a nickname for Bill. Which would be a nickname for, probably, William.What do you guys think of Bill?
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I like it. It is my dad's name (and was his father's as well). I think it works well for a grown man and would be kind of cute on a little boy. My dad was Billy when he was young (his father was too, I think), but I kind of like the idea of just Bill, even on a little boy.
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I had a wonderful cousin Bill, who was a William on all the forms but never in real life! Bill could also work for Willard or Wilson or even Wilbur, I suppose, but William is totally wonderful and it would be refreshing to meet a little Bill rather than a Liam or a Will. Go for it!
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InterestingI know far fewers Bills than I do Williams, but it seems that most people know more Bills than Williams. So maybe my impression of these names is reversed from the general one.
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The only Williams I know who actually go by William are young boys. Older Williams (40+?) go by Bill, and the rest go by Will. Bill is a quintessential "Dad name" to me, just like Jim, Mike, and Bob.
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Do you watch True Blood? When Sookie says Bill in that sick fake Southern accent I want to vom.Anyway, I don't like Bill. It's very used car salesman to me.
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No, I just read the books. I watched like one episode of true blood and I didn't like it. I hated Bill on the show. Why did they cast someone who looked just like Edward Cullen?
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LOL
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Ugh Sookie Stackhouse....Charlaine Harris can't write. I have no idea why her books are popular or why they inspired an HBO series. But onto the name...William is a family name. My grandfather went by Willie and Bill (but of course I only ever heard him called "grandpa" so that never registered with me). My younger brother was named in honor of him. Family calls him Billy. He tried to go by Bill (he was such a serious little kid!) but I don't think it ever caught on. I call him Willy-Billy because I'm the older sister so I'm allowed to give nicknames that are inherently stupid. But there are SO MANY William/Billy/Bill/Wills in his age group that everyone calls him by our last name--which is quite strange and very uncommon. So it's common. I love William. Hate Bill.
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She's not that good of a writer, is she? I think her books are so addictive because they're written by a worrier, and they fill up with such dramatic symbology the space worriers allot to worry about things. It's like tetris but with infinite sexy youthful immortal people and mortal problems.
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Hmm, perhaps that is why I don't find her gripping? I know a thing or two about authors who may not be masters of words but are somehow addictive anyway! Maybe I'm missing something since I'm not a worrier!
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I've never given it much thought, but now that I have dedicated some time to it, I realize I admire its starchy, shamelessly quotidian charm. I really love Billie as a feminine nickname.
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It always makes me think of the Schoolhouse Rock song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyeJ55o3El0
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I've known so many Bills that the name seems very generic to me, but if you really like it, why not? There aren't many little boys who are called Bill these days, so it's at least unexpected.I really like William.
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It makes me think of Clinton. As nns of William go, I prefer Will.
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I like the name, but I might be biased as it is a family name. My brother is Billy (from William) and I have an uncle Bill (from William) as well.
William is a common but still handsome name. I think that Bill is probably the most usual nickname, as I don't know many Williams who go by William, usually they go by Billy or Bill.
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I have an uncle Bill and we have a good friend named Bill. I like it for a nickname of William. It seems a bit odd on a very young person. There was a boy in school with me named Bill (William) and even at nine years old I thought it was kind of funny for a kid his age to go by Bill. But since there was also a Will, a Willie and a couple of Billys, Bill made more sense.
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It's a bit drab, especially for you. William is fine, but I find it generic. I remember you complaining that Katherine and James were like giving one's child no name at all. Ironic, then, that Bill would pique your interest. Both my grandfather and two of my great-grandfathers (and several others before that) were all Williams. Most of them Bills, though one went by "W. O." Bill is a little flat.
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Well, there aren't a lot of Bills in my age group. Tons of Williams, though, and that would hold me back from it. Most of them are Will or William, but I know maybe one or two Billys. No Bills. A professor at my school goes by Billy, too. Come to think of it I don't talk to any Bills regularly.I do know infinite Katherines and Jameses.
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Agreed. I know a decent number of Williams-called-Bill in my parents' age group, but only like 1-2 in mine. Everyone else seems to be William-called-Will.
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It's bland and unmemorable to me. I've met so many Bills, it just doesn't register.
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