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Anyone have a good name for Giles' mother. I have Faith's PoV and she thinks of Giles as, well, Giles. It's sort of odd, in that context, referring to his mother as Mrs. Giles.

Date: 2014-06-09 05:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] devo79.livejournal.com
Amelia
Bertha
Frances
Nellie
Mildred

You can find more here:
http://www.baby2see.com/names/1890s.html

I know she wasn't born in the 1890's but that should provide you with some nice old fashioned names :)

Date: 2014-06-09 07:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com
Thanks. I actually have an aunt Mildred. I have to assume she never liked her name. ;-)

Hmmm, I'd go with my grandpa's sister's name but I think Avis would make people think of the car rental place.

Date: 2014-06-09 09:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] devo79.livejournal.com
Avis is the Danish word for newspaper :)

I really think Giles' mother would have an old fashioned but sweet name like Nelly unless she's a mean bitch then she'd have one of those names that sound like a sharp command.

Date: 2014-06-09 11:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com
Given the English class system, I'm not sure Nelly sounds highfalutin enough. I do mean for her to be fairly nice though.

Date: 2014-06-10 08:13 am (UTC)
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Nelly would definitely have been a working class man then. Unless it was an affectionate diminutive for Helen or Eleanor.

Date: 2014-06-10 01:17 pm (UTC)

Date: 2014-06-10 12:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] devo79.livejournal.com
Euphemia

I can see Faith rolling her eyes at a name like that :)

Date: 2014-06-10 01:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com
You didn't just make that up? That's a real name?

Date: 2014-06-10 05:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] devo79.livejournal.com
Oh yeah :)

http://nameberry.com/babyname/Euphemia


She was a Christian martyr:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemia
Edited Date: 2014-06-10 05:35 pm (UTC)

Date: 2014-06-10 05:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] devo79.livejournal.com
Faith could shorten it to Effie.
Giles would hate that.

Date: 2014-06-10 06:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com
That is too delightful. And it's worse than either of the aunts name, which is wonderful.
Edited Date: 2014-06-10 06:13 pm (UTC)

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