[Opinions] Re: Albert, Patricia, Gerald, & Sylvia
in reply to a message by Billina
Gerald is a nothing name, with a faint flavour of red hair and freckles and a golfing hat.
Patricia is serenely lovely, but completely unusable for nickname reasons. I've never met a Patricia who wasn't either Pat, Patty, Patsy, Tish, Trish or Trisha!
Albert is almost a GP I suppose: where I live, and in today's world, I wouldn't use it as a fn but I like it a lot and would happily consider it as a mn. At least then it wouldn't become Al, Bert or Bertie. OK, Al isn't too bad, but not good enough to take the risk and use Albert.
Sylvia is lovely, I just hear the song every time - the Shakespeare one, not Sylvia's Mother! The only Sylvia I've known well was in my class at junior school: she was large and clumsy and unattractive, and seriously unwashed with BO, but a very kind, shy, pleasant girl. Not a classic Sylvia, but the name is so lovely I didn't mind the association at all.
Patricia is serenely lovely, but completely unusable for nickname reasons. I've never met a Patricia who wasn't either Pat, Patty, Patsy, Tish, Trish or Trisha!
Albert is almost a GP I suppose: where I live, and in today's world, I wouldn't use it as a fn but I like it a lot and would happily consider it as a mn. At least then it wouldn't become Al, Bert or Bertie. OK, Al isn't too bad, but not good enough to take the risk and use Albert.
Sylvia is lovely, I just hear the song every time - the Shakespeare one, not Sylvia's Mother! The only Sylvia I've known well was in my class at junior school: she was large and clumsy and unattractive, and seriously unwashed with BO, but a very kind, shy, pleasant girl. Not a classic Sylvia, but the name is so lovely I didn't mind the association at all.
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Gerald is a nothing name, with a faint flavour of red hair and freckles and a golfing hat.
He had sandy blonde hair in his youth, but he did have freckles, and he loved to golf. Weird.
He had sandy blonde hair in his youth, but he did have freckles, and he loved to golf. Weird.
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