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Help[Opinions] Re: Hank & Scipio
in reply to a message by Manipura
Hank doesn't happen where I live, so I have no thoughts apart from associating it with an American nn for someone named Henry. Scipio doesn't happen here either: the only people who might have a context for it would be specialists in Latin and/or Roman history, and Scipio Africanus would not appeal to present-day Africans any more than it did in his own lifetime.
If I saw them in a sibset, I'd assume that the very different sounds and associations indicated either two parents with very different tastes and a lot of tolerance, or two very special but very different people that the boys were named after. Which I could respect, but I'd definitely prefer both of them as middle names.
If I saw them in a sibset, I'd assume that the very different sounds and associations indicated either two parents with very different tastes and a lot of tolerance, or two very special but very different people that the boys were named after. Which I could respect, but I'd definitely prefer both of them as middle names.
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