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This is getting tiresome. I don't mind if somebody genuinely likes an old or obscure name, or dislikes a modern or very popular name. But WS seems more and more to be deliberately contrarian, to the point where I get the very strong feeling that he is borderline trolling. His pompous manner does not help. We're not idiots here, and you aren't superior to us just because you ferret out the oldest, most antique and unknown names you can find and fawn over them, and turn your nose up at any name that has gotten some use in the last three centuries. You're not fooling anybody but yourself.

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