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| nome |
 Jul 28 2003, 08:43 PM
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Queen of the Bowling Alley
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If people want to start gathering names for incidental characters, but can't think of enough middle class American/ancient greek/sixteenth century irish/whatever names, they can post here for suggestions.
For example, if anyone would like to help my extreme name-related incompetence, what is the most classic ninteenth-century-esque English uppercrust name you can think of? (first, last, both, whatever) I'd be immensely grateful for anything you can think up, as I try to pick names to really fit certain characters.
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| Guest_percival |
Jul 29 2003, 08:55 AM
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Georgette Heyer and Regency romances tend to use Romn inspired names, such as Horatia or Minerva. Actually, Horatia sounds as stuffy as it gets to me  |
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| Aibhinn |
Jul 29 2003, 09:45 PM
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Through the mirror
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Hyphenated names seem to sound awfully stuffy upper-crust. E.g. Sir Nicolas de Mimsy-Porpington, aka "Nearly Headless Nick," and a character in a mystery I recently read, "Peregrine Foggington-Smythe."
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| Imogen |
Jul 31 2003, 09:33 AM
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On a mission with a pen
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Would names like 'Felicity' fit in with that time period, Percival? I'll ponder over it this morning and see what else I can think of. Imogen
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After her O.W.L.s Hope had managed to persuade her dad to give her a crash course in what he laughingly referred to as “Parseltongue for tourists”. Being in Slytherin, she’d thought it had been the epitome of cool to return to school with such useful snakey phrases as “Can you pass the apple pie, please?” and “Would you be good enough to tell me what time the train to Madrid departs from Platform Two?”
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| Imogen |
Jul 31 2003, 01:47 PM
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On a mission with a pen
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Penelope
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After her O.W.L.s Hope had managed to persuade her dad to give her a crash course in what he laughingly referred to as “Parseltongue for tourists”. Being in Slytherin, she’d thought it had been the epitome of cool to return to school with such useful snakey phrases as “Can you pass the apple pie, please?” and “Would you be good enough to tell me what time the train to Madrid departs from Platform Two?”
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| Shimmer |
Aug 7 2003, 06:27 PM
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Stealing socks
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Another good name website is Here. It lets you search for names by the meaning of them, which is quite useful! Since some of my characters are Selkies, I searched for Water, Sea, etc, and came up with some good ones! Oh and does anyone know some traditional Irish names and last names? Thanks! Shimmer
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| rdehwyll |
Aug 7 2003, 07:07 PM
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Incessant Writer and Reader
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Surnames and where to find them --
My favorite place to look for names is a Phone Book. Try your local library -- they may have phone books for other states (in America), and even foreign countries. (My local Library has them for London, Paris, Moscow, several hundred others, plus almost every city of 50,000 residents or more in the US)
There are also similar listings online -- try a google search for Phone Numbers, then use the browse function to run through the lists.
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Robert Waldbauer
Writing is incredibly easy -- one just stares hard at the blank piece of paper until droplets of blood form on ones brow...
Life Instructor and History Maven by trade
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| rdehwyll |
Aug 7 2003, 07:18 PM
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Incessant Writer and Reader
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Irish Names: Given names can be found here Irish NamesSurnames can be found here Irish Surnameshttp
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Robert Waldbauer
Writing is incredibly easy -- one just stares hard at the blank piece of paper until droplets of blood form on ones brow...
Life Instructor and History Maven by trade
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* They're all I can think of, really. :/ Any good?
I never even thought of it. It's so simple, and yet it just never crossed my mind.