I was thinking about the way the names Alice and Ellis are almost identical in sound, and yet RADICALLY DIFFERENT in style. Imagine being someone completely unfamiliar with both names and trying to understand why one was a classic vintage traditional storybook name and the other was an androgynous preppy surname name. So much of the feel and appeal of a name is separate from the actual sound of it—which can make it harder to understand naming styles once they’ve drifted out of fashion. It can also contribute to how ruffled our feelings get if one name is mistaken for another.<\/p>\n
Can we think of other such examples? They don’t have to be as similar in sound or as different in style as Alice\/Ellis: just anything where a relatively small change in sound makes a disproportionately large change in style.<\/p>\n
Allie and Ellie
\nAmy and Emmie
\nAutumn and Adam
\nBeverly and Everly
\nDavis and David
\nLacey and Lucy
\nJenny and Ginny
\nJoy and Joyce
\nCharlotte and Scarlet
\nJane and Jean and Joan and June
\nGrey and Grace
\nChloe and Cleo
\nNoah and Owen
\nCarla and Clara
\nChris and Carys
\nMonica and Annika (the ON-nicka pronunciation)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was thinking about the way the names Alice and Ellis are almost identical in sound, and yet RADICALLY DIFFERENT in style. Imagine being someone completely unfamiliar with both names and trying to understand why one was a classic vintage traditional storybook name and the other was an androgynous preppy surname name. So much of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3FU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14130"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14150,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14130\/revisions\/14150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}