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Help[Opinions] Re: Everleigh
in reply to a message by Amandine
It's not my style at all.
The -ly to -leigh seems elaborated to look, I guess, British to American eyes? Posh?
Everleigh is kind of like Greenleigh ... Leigh is nice, but I don't need Ever- or Green- it. Or Amber- or Kimber- it, for that matter.
Everly is very standard surname-namey to me, it's just like the latest spin on Kimberly (which was a spin on Beverly which was a spin on Shirley) and there's just nothing to them, for me, except fashionable sounds and modest aspirations to be modern and vaguely "professional" or sexless-sounding.
Except maybe the double-adverb look of Everly, which makes it seem a tiny bit dumb.
Everlee is the only one I have a little softness for, because to me it seems like it is not trying to be anything more than a fanciful word-name with a feminizing sound tacked onto the end of it, and so it can seem more sweet and whimsical and pure compared to the others.
ShioTanbo1 mentioned Everlea, and that's similar but a bit of fanciful 'Avonlea' style in it - not my thing, but seems nicer than Everly or Everleigh. And it seems true to the original place-name meaning (about a lea, prn as lee).
- mirfak
The -ly to -leigh seems elaborated to look, I guess, British to American eyes? Posh?
Everleigh is kind of like Greenleigh ... Leigh is nice, but I don't need Ever- or Green- it. Or Amber- or Kimber- it, for that matter.
Everly is very standard surname-namey to me, it's just like the latest spin on Kimberly (which was a spin on Beverly which was a spin on Shirley) and there's just nothing to them, for me, except fashionable sounds and modest aspirations to be modern and vaguely "professional" or sexless-sounding.
Except maybe the double-adverb look of Everly, which makes it seem a tiny bit dumb.
Everlee is the only one I have a little softness for, because to me it seems like it is not trying to be anything more than a fanciful word-name with a feminizing sound tacked onto the end of it, and so it can seem more sweet and whimsical and pure compared to the others.
ShioTanbo1 mentioned Everlea, and that's similar but a bit of fanciful 'Avonlea' style in it - not my thing, but seems nicer than Everly or Everleigh. And it seems true to the original place-name meaning (about a lea, prn as lee).
- mirfak
