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Help[Opinions] Re: Everleigh
in reply to a message by Gaia
The sound of it seems fine, because it sounds like Avery and Evelyn.
But Everly is a disappointingly flimsy substitute for Avery or Evelyn. What more is it than that, really? It's Avery or Evelyn for people who fancy themselves too special for Avery and Evelyn but not quite special enough for Ever (which is ever so slightly worse than Everly imo, because it's not a name, not namey, not even a surname).
I readily read Everleigh as a word like evergreen. Everleigh = always Leigh. It happens effortlessly. It looks like a facetious username that someone named Leigh would use. So I think the name is just bad. It's usable, since it rolls off the tongue! But IMHO, it disappoints in every other way.
Everlee has all the same problems as Everleigh, except it doesn't look as much like the title of a YA fantasy, or the name of another one of those brand-new firetrap apartment-over-retail tenement buildings with cheap siding.
- mirfak
But Everly is a disappointingly flimsy substitute for Avery or Evelyn. What more is it than that, really? It's Avery or Evelyn for people who fancy themselves too special for Avery and Evelyn but not quite special enough for Ever (which is ever so slightly worse than Everly imo, because it's not a name, not namey, not even a surname).
I readily read Everleigh as a word like evergreen. Everleigh = always Leigh. It happens effortlessly. It looks like a facetious username that someone named Leigh would use. So I think the name is just bad. It's usable, since it rolls off the tongue! But IMHO, it disappoints in every other way.
Everlee has all the same problems as Everleigh, except it doesn't look as much like the title of a YA fantasy, or the name of another one of those brand-new firetrap apartment-over-retail tenement buildings with cheap siding.
- mirfak
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