[Opinions] Ethel or Gladys
Which do you like more or (far more likely) hate less?
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Ethel
Ethyl and her brother Carbon!
Ethel
Always had a soft spot for it. It's ugly but I like it.
Always had a soft spot for it. It's ugly but I like it.
Gladys!
I am loving this enough to use it. I've met a few recently and I love the vintage vibe.
Ethel just makes me think of ethyl groups and organic chemistry.
I am loving this enough to use it. I've met a few recently and I love the vintage vibe.
Ethel just makes me think of ethyl groups and organic chemistry.
Gladys
It has "glad" right in there! :-)
I used to really like the combo Gladys Emily - nice mixture of the old and the new.
It has "glad" right in there! :-)
I used to really like the combo Gladys Emily - nice mixture of the old and the new.
Gladys
I really like how it looks. Sure, it screams "granny!" but it's kinda cool if you give it a chance.
I really like how it looks. Sure, it screams "granny!" but it's kinda cool if you give it a chance.
Ethel
My opinion of them is about equal. Although there was an Ethel I disliked on a show, Ethie is a cute nickname I'd probably use.
My opinion of them is about equal. Although there was an Ethel I disliked on a show, Ethie is a cute nickname I'd probably use.
Ethel. Makes me think of the character from "I love Lucy".
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I vastly prefer Gladys. Ethel had a brief spasm of fashionability (probably isn't a word, but you know what I mean) but then descended into the lower levels of society and from there into comedy. And there are many worse things to be called than Glad.
I imagine that somewhere on Youtube or similar there might be some old BBC radio comedies featuring "The Glums". These were a family of pub-crawling father, mother who took to her bed long ago and never reappeared, cretinous son Ron and Ron's dim girlfriend Ethel, known as Eth, who tries in vain to civilise the rest of them. Enough to put anyone off for life!
I know a Gladys in her mid-20s, which is unexpected. Her family left the DR Congo when she was a toddler: they are Catholics and speak French at home, and I'm sure her Western name was always Gladys, though no doubt she had another name in a local language. Where the name Gladys came from, I don't know. The only other ones have been seriously older women, one from Scotland and one from Yorkshire.
I imagine that somewhere on Youtube or similar there might be some old BBC radio comedies featuring "The Glums". These were a family of pub-crawling father, mother who took to her bed long ago and never reappeared, cretinous son Ron and Ron's dim girlfriend Ethel, known as Eth, who tries in vain to civilise the rest of them. Enough to put anyone off for life!
I know a Gladys in her mid-20s, which is unexpected. Her family left the DR Congo when she was a toddler: they are Catholics and speak French at home, and I'm sure her Western name was always Gladys, though no doubt she had another name in a local language. Where the name Gladys came from, I don't know. The only other ones have been seriously older women, one from Scotland and one from Yorkshire.
Ethel
I actually quite like Ethel. I'd never use it, but it's got some clunky appeal.
I actually quite like Ethel. I'd never use it, but it's got some clunky appeal.
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Ethel
I don't care what anyone says, the sounds are soft and pretty and it'll be back with force in probably my grandchildren's generation. And I won't be sad about it. I wouldn't give it to a kid today myself but I'd pick it over Gladys without blinking an eye.
I don't care what anyone says, the sounds are soft and pretty and it'll be back with force in probably my grandchildren's generation. And I won't be sad about it. I wouldn't give it to a kid today myself but I'd pick it over Gladys without blinking an eye.
Gladys
Hard choice, I dislike both!
Hard choice, I dislike both!
Oh dear... these are both very, very icky to me. But if I HAD to choose... I guess Gladys. At least with "glad" there's something happy about the name. ;)
Gladys
Gladys ...
I'd shoot my parents, join Witness Protection and change my name if I was named Ethel. If I was Gladys I'd go by my middle name, making one up if I had to, but wouldn't shoot my parents.
I'd shoot my parents, join Witness Protection and change my name if I was named Ethel. If I was Gladys I'd go by my middle name, making one up if I had to, but wouldn't shoot my parents.
I'm gonna choose Ethel; it's easy to spell, and it has a good meaning ("noble").
I like Gladys
I dislike them equally.
Gladys! Especially since it reminds me of GLaDos from Portal!