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Help[Opinions] Re: Coriander
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Hm.
The Cori or Cora nickname does soften it up, as you say.
The -iander makes me think of Leander, so it doesn't feel very feminine to me.
Also, I keep seeing colander when I look at it, so it doesn't feel very name-y to me either.
But the sound is not bad, really. I certainly don't love it and it feels a bit fantasy-ish, but I think it could work okay.
Three boys nappin', one mama namenerdin'
To peruse my top 100ish names: http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/82589
"My Inner Birthing Mother Paddles a Canoe" and other non-name musings
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The Cori or Cora nickname does soften it up, as you say.
The -iander makes me think of Leander, so it doesn't feel very feminine to me.
Also, I keep seeing colander when I look at it, so it doesn't feel very name-y to me either.
But the sound is not bad, really. I certainly don't love it and it feels a bit fantasy-ish, but I think it could work okay.
Three boys nappin', one mama namenerdin'
To peruse my top 100ish names: http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/82589
"My Inner Birthing Mother Paddles a Canoe" and other non-name musings
found on my blog: http://jodifriesen.blogspot.ca/2014/07/paddle-power.html
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Now you've said it, I do think it could work equally well on a boy if it were to be used as a name at all. It doesn't feel particularly gendered at the moment, and I'm not sure it ever will. The -ander ending does help it on its way to being masculine, though, at least visually.
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