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I said in a thread below that Olivia sounded pretty and elegant, but also cold and slithery. Lavinia sounds cold and slithery but not pretty or elegant. It's just ugly and hateful-sounding, if a name can be said to sound hateful. Lavinia beats her servants and wears puppy-skin capes like Cruella Deville.

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I don't know that Vinnie is inevitable as a nn, it's not like we have lots of Lavinias to go by. But it's awful anyway. It sounds like a Mafia boss.