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Lola and Tess
In work the other day I heard a little girl being called and her name was Lola, she was about 2. What are your opinions on Lola?Then today in work, there was a new born baby named Tess. Opinions?
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You can shorten Tesa to Tess, which is good; you can only lengthen Tess to Tessie, which is bad.
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Should be Tessa - sorry!
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I like the sound and look of Lola, but really dislike the meaning. Tess I love, but could never use as my DH is Lebanese and in Arabic there is a word which sounds the same, but means goat!
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Forgot to say Lola is my mum's friends adopted granddaughters name & Tess is granny Black's cat.Lola reminds me of a drag queen. Qoute Kinks song "she walks like a woman talks like a man my Lola"Don't like Tess for anything
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I like Lola. Tess is ok as a nn for Teresa.
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I love Tess. I am really into it at the moment. And at first I thought Lola and Tess were a sibset and I was like, "omg awesome." Lola and Tess, so flapper-fabulous.
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I like Lola. I could never use it, but I appreciate it; it has a pretty, wispy quality that makes me alternately think of someone with a really strong personality or someone who's happily enigmatic.Tess sounds too simple and insubstantial to me. It's sweet but feels like it's missing something.I like both these names better as nns for something longer: Dolores, Charlotte, Lorelei, or even Gwendolen for Lola, and Therese, Tempest, or Theresa for Tess.
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I dislike Lola, but that's mostly due to an association.I love Tess! It's nice as a given name or nickname, but I actually prefer it as a given name.
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