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George W. Bush's daughter Barbara Bush Coyne and her husband Craig Coyne have a daughter.Cora Georgia Coyne.Cora Coyne.Some people just have no ear for how things sound together.None of that sound right together.Cora Coyne sounds very much like coricoid, which is a bone in the neck/shoulder area.Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
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The individual elements aren't bad. Cora is a name that I've noticed is trending - it's not my favorite, but it isn't terrible. (I prefer Cara, but that's just me.)I don't like any of the "George" names (that repetitious J sound gets to me), so that's why can't warm up to Georgia - but on its face it isn't a bad name.But everything with the last name is just wrong.Coyne sounds like the English word "coin," so Cora Coyne sounds like... you're coring (taking the core out of) a coin. And "Georgia Coyne" is a coin made in the state of Georgia.Yeesh.
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Oh dear. I know a Cora, named after a grandmother, which surprised me; she's about ten, I should think, and her sister is Stella, after the other granny. Also a mismatched set, I think, like the Bush twins. But Cora and Georgia have the same -or- sound which just doesn't work for me. I almost agree with Perrine: Coralie Georgina would have pleased me more. She'd still be stuck with her startling ln of course; especially now that more and more women are choosing to keep their birth ln when they marry: by the time she's grown up, I think that will be the default. I took DH's ln eagerly: it liberated me from a set of initials that spell a word, and that word just wasn't appropriate. But the ln itself was fine, and Coyne really isn't. I'd have stayed as Ms Bush if I'd married Mr Coyne!
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Yeah, there’s no flow happening there. Cora Coyne sounds too abrupt and Cora Georgia just doesn’t flow and roll off the tongue at all. Cora and Georgia are both lovely names, just not together!
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Could be so much worse.But I dislike both names. Cora is okay and so is Georgia. But they are harsh.I much prefer Coral or Coraline and Georgina.Cora Georgia Coyne sounds very abrupt.Cora Coyne reminds me of "power point".But again could be worse.Her and her sister have the most mismatched names: Jenna and Barbara.I always found that so odd.
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Each of the twins was named for a grandmother: Barbara the paternal grandmother and Jenna the maternal grandmother.
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Cora is oldfashioned and pleasant. Georgia is lovely. As you said, they don't flow well together, and Cora Coyne sounds like nursery rhyme. Georgia Coyne sounds much better.
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Georgia Coyne sounds to me like one of those shady cash for gold type outfits.
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Cora is pretty, Georgia is okay. Cora Georgia? Lmao. No for me. Annoyingly alliterative. Cora Irisa, Cora Diana, Cora... literally anything else but that. No comment on Cora Coyne.
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Yep, the repeating "or" sound is really tough on the ears.
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I'll admit it doesn't have the best flow, but how many people even know what a coricoid bone is? My guess is few. I didn't even know it until until I took a college anatomy class. Cora and Georgia are both lovely, I think you are overthinking it.
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Georgia Coyne would have been lovely. I really like how sweet and friendly Georgia is.I like Cora, but not with that surname.I guess it could have been worse, her name could have been Penny Coyne!
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