New Post
Search
Help[Opinions] Augusta
WDYT of Augusta?
**Starfish and coffee, maple syrup and jam/Butterscotch clouds, a tangerine, and a side order of ham**
**Starfish and coffee, maple syrup and jam/Butterscotch clouds, a tangerine, and a side order of ham**
Archived Thread - replies disabled
1
Replies
In theory, I love it. It's beautiful and has a great history. When I hear it in real life, though, I can't help but find it incredibly pretentious and overwrought.
I've known two young Augusta's. The first ones by I
Aggie, the second went by Gussy. The first just had a brother named Giovanni. I have to say the sibling set of Augustina and Giovanni is pretty cool. The second set is ridiculous. Robert nn Bert, Bauer, Aurora, Augusta, and Agatha.
I also knew an older woman named Mary Augusta. She wasa captain in the army and an incredibly strong, intelligent woman. she normally just went by Mary however her brother always insisted on calling her Mary Augusta. All I could picture when you called her that was a little girl in a white dress with pigtails. It was so ridiculous. I'm thinking that she would have been born in the 1920s, to a upper class family. Very upper-class.
I've known two young Augusta's. The first ones by I
Aggie, the second went by Gussy. The first just had a brother named Giovanni. I have to say the sibling set of Augustina and Giovanni is pretty cool. The second set is ridiculous. Robert nn Bert, Bauer, Aurora, Augusta, and Agatha.
I also knew an older woman named Mary Augusta. She wasa captain in the army and an incredibly strong, intelligent woman. she normally just went by Mary however her brother always insisted on calling her Mary Augusta. All I could picture when you called her that was a little girl in a white dress with pigtails. It was so ridiculous. I'm thinking that she would have been born in the 1920s, to a upper class family. Very upper-class.
1
It's beautiful and statuesque in a "dowager great aunt" way.
1
I’ve never met a single one, though it is my great-great-grandmother’s middle name. It is very heavy; I cannot easily picture it on a little girl. It’s just very dated and also unripened for revival yet. Though, a perfect choice for those who choose to go against fashion, as I sometimes do myself. Augusta isn’t the name I’d use to make that statement, however. Ursula, perhaps, though!
1
Love it. Probably the only name that I actually love for this baby.
1
I adore it! It's noble without being haughty.
1
It's not very attractive in sound. It sounds like an aging southern belle high-handing it over everybody.
1
I like it, helped by the fact that it's the name of a very pretty coastal town in south-western Australia.
1
I don't like it. OK, I don't like April, May and June either! But Augusta has that forbidding sense of the august about it that means I find it hard to imagine an Augusta who isn't severe, and severely corseted. Like Aunt Alexandra in TKAM, only more so.
Same with August and Augustus as male names.
The follow-up, therefore: in the first Rivers of London book there is a short-lived minor character who is a young woman, Danish and named August. Is this likely IRL, or is it a convincing fantasy on a par with a Nigerian nurse becoming the Goddess of the Thames?
Same with August and Augustus as male names.
The follow-up, therefore: in the first Rivers of London book there is a short-lived minor character who is a young woman, Danish and named August. Is this likely IRL, or is it a convincing fantasy on a par with a Nigerian nurse becoming the Goddess of the Thames?
1
I love it!
1