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[Opinions] Clarke and Roy
These are real brothers under 4.
Imo, it's nice to see Roy and Clark would've been so much better. The names are okay.Wdyt?
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Clark would be better than Clark. My dad’s name is Roy, so I would use it as a middle name. I don’t love the names, but they are okay and refreshing to see on children.
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reminds me of Hee-HawFor anyone who doesn't know, Hee-Haw was a TV show that ran into the early nineties from the late sixties, and it had country music performances and very corny, country/southern comedy sketches. The hosts were Buck Owens and Roy Clark, so that's who I immediately thought of when I saw the combo for brothers. My grandparents and aunts and uncles all watched Hee-Haw every Saturday night so that was a big part of my childhood. My grandmother would wash my hair right before Hee-Haw and sit me in a chair facing the TV so she could watch while she brushed my hair and cut my nails.
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I like Clarke because or Arthur C. Clarke. Clark makes me think of a clerk, or an office, or something like that.
I've only met one Roy. It's okay, but it feels more like middle name material. Always reminds me of the Roy-G-Biv thing for colors.
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Clark was the name of a cousin of mine who died last year (we were the same age: 30), so I have some sentimental attachment to the name, even though I never would have considered it myself with or without knowing him. To my ears the sound is very harsh and hardly sounds personal enough to be someone's personal name. One of those cases where it sounds like you're constantly calling someone by their surname.The sound of Roy has never appealed to me. I don't like the "oy" sound at all. Not that big on Joy or Joyce either, come to think of it.Real life brothers Clarke & Roy, while very far from the worst sibset I've seen, sound incredibly preppy. Like they're going to grow up and play tennis with Penn, Spencer, and Thatcher.
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I agree that Clark sounds like calling someone buy a surname or office work. The word clerical. I know someone with that ln making it worse. Clarke is a baby and they call the baby Clarke.
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Call him Clarkie**
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Clarke is okay, I agree Clark would be a little better. I dislike Roy but it’s refreshing to see on a young person.
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I don't like either name, esp Clarke
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I like Roy. Clark is okay, not great not terrible, but the e at the end just seems unnecessary. Don't like it.
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I like Roy very much and Clark not at all. I suppose the -e ending was to be unlike Superman? But in my dialect anyway it sounds like 'clerk' and therefore like an occupation name.
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