Ann(e)
Pros:
It fits a lot of different periods and places. (According to the Academy of St. Gabriel, Anne is better for this than Ann.)
I can claim it to be a shortened form of another name, expanding the list to even MORE periods and places. (Ann is better for this than Anne.)
Buffy chose it. ^_^ (Anne, that is.)
Cons:
Very similar to
tpau's name.
Possibly a popular name? I haven't heard it a lot, though...
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on 1 Feb 2005 05:20 (UTC)no subject
on 1 Feb 2005 05:59 (UTC)Annarchy?
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on 1 Feb 2005 07:38 (UTC)Anne of Green Gables, of course. ::Grins::
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on 1 Feb 2005 08:14 (UTC)Having an unusual name can be awfully wearing sometimes. That's why I'm glad I now have one name (since getting married) that everyone can spell & say: Smith. It doesn't get any easier than that.
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on 1 Feb 2005 10:12 (UTC)In the SCA, popularity of names is almost exactly the inverse of what it was in the Real Middle Ages. Most people want an "interesting" name, so the names tht were actually common in period, are often rare in the SCA. For example, *no one* is listed in the current Carolingian Liber as "Mary", and there are only a few close variants, despite it being far and away the most popular female name for most of our period. We currently have an Anne of Felding, and an Anne of Framlingham listed in the Liber; that's not too many.
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on 1 Feb 2005 10:19 (UTC)Well, not really. Buffy's parents did. It was Buffy's middle name, and she just went to plan B.
The important thing is that you like it. I'm also going to come down on the side of Anne rather than Ann (which looks unfinished to me), but it's going to be your name.
In my limited SCA social circles, I can only think of one other Ann[e], though she spells it Aine and everyone pronounces it the same as Ann[e].
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on 1 Feb 2005 10:22 (UTC)HA!
on 1 Feb 2005 16:51 (UTC)The two are interchangeable.
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on 2 Feb 2005 06:41 (UTC)I like