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Yvonne was almost my name.My mother considered naming me for her childhood friend, a French-speaking girl named Yvonne.
It's a good name, I wouldn't have minded, though I like my own name just fine.

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Yvette is pretty, but, just locally, it's come to be the name for politically uninformed and timid women. For example, in an election campaign, -

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"That policy sounds interesting, but how will it fly with the Yvettes?"

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But, outside my own little bubble, Yvette is a nice name.

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