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[Opinions] Evelina “Eva”
What do you think? I love Eva but it’s incredibly popular here so it would probably be more of an occasional nickname.Thanks!
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I really dislike Evelina. Too long, too elaborate, too frilly, kind of elf-like…Eva is beautiful, though.
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I prefer Evelyn (EEVlin); Evelina is inconveniently long and I don't enjoy the rhythm. My aunt was named Eva; I asked my grandmother why, and she said "She was our first child, and we liked the fact that Eva has no nickname forms". I asked if they'd have named a boy baby Adam, and she was very startled: clearly, that had never occurred to them. Then my aunt came in and offered to make tea; Gran said "Yes, please, Eve" wihout blinking, and I said nothing.
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Eva would work with the pronunciation "Ee-vah-lee-nuh" (neither of which I like). I prefer Eh-vuh-leen-uh, with the nickname Lena.
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I like Eva and Evalina, but not so much evelina
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