Comments | teenagelogic: Writer's Block: A rose by any other name

teenagelogic

Writer's Block: A rose by any other name

Jun 07, 2010 17:39

pseudo-scottish since 1991, you and your feelings bb, in which i go on a bit

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keladry_lupin June 7 2010, 16:54:38 UTC

I saw your response on the Writer's Block page and wanted to say that I love your name. Both of them. But I have family connections to both Elizabeth and Ruth, so I'm prejudiced. And I was grandmotherly when I was six.

It could always be worse. My friend's aunt suggested Mehetabel Hortence for her.

teenagelogic June 7 2010, 17:31:38 UTC

Yeah, in the grand scheme of things my name is really not at all bad. And I never have to spell either of my given names (even if nobody ever puts the other 'z' on 'Lizz').

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seagreenish June 7 2010, 16:57:28 UTC

Lizz suits you :) although I also think Elizabeth is a really pretty name.

teenagelogic June 7 2010, 17:16:14 UTC

I do like Elizabeth, in theory, in a third-person kind of way. But I don't like how it sounds, or feels, when I say it. It feels like the name of a 45-year-old woman in sensible shoes. I may wear sensible shoes, and I may act like a 45-year-old woman, but I don't particularly like my name advertising that.

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teenagelogic June 7 2010, 17:08:09 UTC

Babe, it was totally you who made that up. You can have full credit for that one.

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teenagelogic June 8 2010, 09:54:02 UTC

Elizabeth is my grandmother's name, too; she's always called Bett, though. I'm afraid I've heard "Betty" too many times said in a sneering, unpleasant voice (not usually to me, but to another Elizabeth of my acquaintance) to really like it as a name. I quite like Betsy, though? After 'Margaret' I think my name is the one with the largest number of shortened versions...

chargasm June 7 2010, 19:33:14 UTC

I think Elizabeth is a gorgeous name! I love those old royal names; Elizabeth, Victoria, Catherine, you know the stuff. True classics.
Anyway, both of our Queen Elizabeths were/are pretty cool so there's no shame in being named after them :)

teenagelogic June 8 2010, 09:59:15 UTC

I like Victoria, and Catherine (although there are a billion different ways of spelling that), and Charlotte (lol hi!), and Caroline, and Alexandra... but not so much Elizabeth. I think I'd probably like it more if it weren't my name!

It's true, Elizabeth I is a pretty good person to be named after, and Elizabeth II's not bad either! Funnily enough I googled my first and last names together and I also share my name with a 'witch' burned in Essex in 1645...