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I find it bland and, ironically in view of its colour and fragrance, unmemorable. And Vi fills me with dread.

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My grandmother remembered many Violet people from its first great rise in the charts, and said that naming a girl Violet seemed to guarantee that she would grow up to be rather stout though corseted, stomp around in flat shoes and be loud-voiced and opinionated! She was a very tolerant person and I never knew her to comment on any other name; certainly not in that kind of way.