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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 24

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Alexandra Erin

      I guess you wouldn't really notice if there were an uptick in boys named Tommy and Billy You would notice an uptick in boys named Visionhttps://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1364677604045971457 …

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      Alexandra Erin @AlexandraErin
      Wonder if there will be a noticeable uptick in babies named Wanda and Agatha this year.
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    2. Pop Culture Portmanteau‏ @RalfThePowerful Feb 24
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      One of my favorite factoids (that I havent bothered verify) was that “Samantha” was an uncommon, exotic name until Bewitched came out and it got so trendy we just see it as normal now, which I heard in response to people melting down over names like “Khaleesi” gaining popularity.

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 24
      Replying to @RalfThePowerful

      I mean, "Madison"

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 24
      Replying to @arthur_affect @RalfThePowerful

      "Madison" wasn't a name for girls at all until Splash, the WHOLE JOKE in Splash is that it's a wildly incongruous name for a woman that she took off a street sign Now thanks to that movie's popularity the joke is completely lost

      4 replies 4 retweets 44 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 24
      Replying to @arthur_affect @RalfThePowerful

      See also "Wendy" from Peter Pan People try to say it's short for "Gwendolyn" (via the German "Wendla") But when JM Barrie put it in Peter Pan it was because of a little girl who used it as a nickname based on her way of saying "friend" ("fwendy wendy")

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    6. Mary Pezzulo Does Not Have A Valid Occupation‏ @mary_pezzulo Feb 24
      Replying to @arthur_affect @RalfThePowerful

      A similar thing happened with "Estella." I mean I don't know that it was ever very popular, but it was an unheard of name in Victorian England and then Dickens had a character named that.

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 24
      Replying to @mary_pezzulo @RalfThePowerful

      The evidence seems to be that "Jessica" is a name in English because Shakespeare made it up

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        2. Mary Pezzulo Does Not Have A Valid Occupation‏ @mary_pezzulo Feb 24
          Replying to @arthur_affect @RalfThePowerful

          I still can't get over the fact that "Mallory" means "bad luck," but people started naming their girls after an ill-fated noble who wrote Morte'Darthur because I guess it sounded fancy.

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        3. Nicholas Guerreiro‏ @napguerreiro Feb 24
          Replying to @mary_pezzulo @arthur_affect @RalfThePowerful

          Especially given what Malory was imprisoned for... I do wonder whether the mountaineer was the source, though. The spelling is closer. To bring things back around, Mallory apparently became popular for girls because of the character in Family Ties.

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        1. Nicholas Guerreiro‏ @napguerreiro Feb 24
          Replying to @arthur_affect @mary_pezzulo @RalfThePowerful

          Even funnier, "Imogen" may be a name in English because either Shakespeare or his printers mistook the two Ns in "Innogen" as an "m," accidentally popularizing a long defunct Norman spelling of a common Celtic name.

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        1. a catherine scorned‏ @georgetakesajob Feb 24
          Replying to @arthur_affect @mary_pezzulo @RalfThePowerful

          possibly an attempt to Latin-ize "Iscah"

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