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Help[Opinions] Re: Saffron and Cassia
in reply to a message by SunnyHoneyBee
That kind of themed twin-naming is usually not a good idea, as it tends toward the cutesy, the forced or the cartoonish.
Saffron doesn't feel much like a name to me. I don't believe I've ever tasted it so I wouldn't even know if it was a spice I liked. Not real fond of the color either, at least not on me.
Cassia is kind of pretty. I actually know of one, she's probably forty now (and not a nice woman) and her name is pronounced CASS-ee-uh. I like this pronunciation better than cash-uh, which I suspect is probably the correct pronunciation of the spice.
I'm not a fan of spice names. Rosemary and Ginger aren't terrible, but Rosemary seems prim and kind of dull, and Ginger is too often a dog's or cat's name, and kind of needs a certain type of personality to carry it off, so should really only be a nn.
Basil as a man's name feels too stereotypically early 20th-century British upper-class.
Sage is a horse name, to me.
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!
Steve Martin
Saffron doesn't feel much like a name to me. I don't believe I've ever tasted it so I wouldn't even know if it was a spice I liked. Not real fond of the color either, at least not on me.
Cassia is kind of pretty. I actually know of one, she's probably forty now (and not a nice woman) and her name is pronounced CASS-ee-uh. I like this pronunciation better than cash-uh, which I suspect is probably the correct pronunciation of the spice.
I'm not a fan of spice names. Rosemary and Ginger aren't terrible, but Rosemary seems prim and kind of dull, and Ginger is too often a dog's or cat's name, and kind of needs a certain type of personality to carry it off, so should really only be a nn.
Basil as a man's name feels too stereotypically early 20th-century British upper-class.
Sage is a horse name, to me.
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!
Steve Martin
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