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Posted By: Ellmyruh, on host 192.147.67.12
Date: Friday, June 15, 2001, at 13:38:04

I don't know about everyone else, but names fascinate me. I decided to pull this post out of the thread it was in and start something new.

> Isn't it strange how a person can affect how we like a name? Christine was once my favorite name. Then I met a girl who was very nasty to me, named Christine. I no longer liked the name.
>
> --Jez"call me Natasha"zika

For as long as I can remember, I've always like E names for girls. (However, 'Ellmyruh' was just a coincidence with a happy outcome.) Elizabeth, Emily, Ellen, Ellie (or Elly), Ella ... yes, I like them all. My favorite name was Elizabeth, until second grade. I switched schools in the middle of the school year, and that's when I met Elizabeth Elliott (good name, I must admit). She instantly hated me because her parents had recently died, she had just moved to the school, and her new, close friend was being nice to me.

I don't know why, but this animosity toward me continued until I moved in sixth grade. I met up with her again in high school, and there were two lockers separating hers from mine. To my dismay, she still hated me.

Although I still like E names, Elizabeth isn't on the top of my list anymore. I don't bear any grudge toward Elizabeth Elliott, but I have a feeling I also wouldn't name my daughter Elizabeth. (For that matter, I also wouldn't use the name of Hannah, because that was the name of a girl in junior high who made my life a little more miserable than it already was at the time.)

However, it also goes the other way. When I started high school, I met a girl named Irma. Inwardly, I thought that it was a rather odd name, although that didn't hinder us from becoming close friends. Now I associate the name of Irma with my best non-Internet friend, and I like it very much.

Ell"L names are cool, too, of course"myruh

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