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[Opinions] Pauline, Petrova and Posy
Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil are three sisters in Noel Streatfield’s book Dancing Shoes. Pauline got her name as she was found on a life raft as a baby after a boat sunk and St Paul was rescued from the sea. Petrova’s birth mother is Russian and they decided it sounds a bit like Peter. Posy is named by her birth mother before being given for adoption. WDYT of the names individually and as a set?
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I do not like Pauline, it sounds too masculine. Paul or Paulus is much prettier.Posy is nice.Petrova - This is weird using surname like a birth name. In Slovak translate they called Petra.
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Petrova as a first name is like nails on a chalkboard. We never use surnames as first names in Russia.
Pauline and Posy seem nice next to it.
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Pauline is the least worst. Posy is unthinkable, and Petrova is surely a patronymic? As a set, I'd have started with Paula rather than Pauline - don't like two-syllable -een names in general, but keeping the shipwreck theme going - and then gone on to Penelope, nn Penny, and Philippa, nn Pippa.
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I like Petrova. Posy is okay. I don’t like Pauline.
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Pauline: Well, it's the best of a bad lot. At least someone seems to have given her name some real thought.Petrova: Any real Russian would laugh at their idea of a Russian first name. Petrova actually sounds like a Russian oil company, and paired with the last name Fossil, even more so.Posy: Fossilized flowers? They should have changed that name as soon as they got her.
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Petrova is dumb because it's a last name. I love Pauline and like Posy.
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I really like Petrova. I know it might be considered a patronym, but that doesn't seem inherantly worse than names like Desmond, which is derived from a surname. Paulina is a bit prettier than Pauline, but both are nice.Posy is the worst name of the bunch. It sounds childish and insubstantial compared to the other names. It also makes me think of a plague posy and by extension death. If I was going to name the twins in the shining, I would probably call one of them Posy.
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Pauline is OK, I prefer Petra to Petrova. I dont like siblings with the same initials
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