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[omfg----hxc.livejournal.com]

I was just watching the ER when Carole has her twins.
She named them Tess and Kate.
I love love love Kate.
Tess is cute but I wouldn't use it.
WDYT?

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[sandtree.livejournal.com]

I like them, but I'd only use them as nicknames for Tessa and Katherine. I know Tessa is technically a nickname for Teresa, but I think it works well enough as a name on its own.

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

TESSA IS NOT A NICKNAME FOR TERESA.



Sorry. But no.



As a Tessa (and a classical culture nut), it's pretty much my biggest naming pet peeve in the world. Completely, totally separate names, though. Teresa is Latinate and has origins in harvesting, farming, etc. words, whereas Tessa is Greek and has roots in rather obscure words related to slavery.

As slavery/servitude and harvesting/farming have some degree of historical overlap, the assumption is widespread. I know babynames.com has the wrong explanation for Tessa, as do a plethora of other sites. Then again, they're completely user-contribution-based (which makes sense, of course), so the error is understandable — if annoying, at least to me.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I wasn't going by baby name sites, I was going by people I've known (of) called Teresa/Theresa who were nicknamed Tessa or Tess. But I understand your passion in defending your name, because I'm always raving on about how the correct spelling of Alison is with one L, and because I'm kind of a nut about name history as well. And if it means anything, I think Tessa is much nicer than Teresa, and am glad to find that it's not just a nickname for Teresa, but a name in its own right.

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

Ha. I clicked "Post Comment" and immediately thought I sound like a lunatic!


Ah, well. We all have our moments. I prefer Alison with the one L, actually. Two are superfluous, y'know?


For what it's worth, there's a theory that Tessa means Fourth Child, and that Theresa is Latinate but only via Greek, and it all gets rather... dodgy. But in the end, I'm just happy for people to realize that naming a girl Tessa is NOT giving her a nickname-as-real-name!

PS

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

But nothing's as bad as when people ask whether it's short for Contessa (?!) or even Vanessa (?!?!?!?!).

Heh.

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[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Vanessa? How on earth do you get Tessa from Vanessa? I guess they kind of rhyme...?

Reminds me of people who think that Alison means 'Alice's son'. :P

Re: PS

[so-there.livejournal.com]

how to you get bob out of robert? bill out of william?

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

I like Kate, although I prefer Cate, as a nickname for Catherine. Kate by itself always seems incomplete, but it's not bad. For some reason I think Carol actually DID name her Katherine (since she's sort of named after Mark's mother), but I can't remember if Kate was a nickname or her ACTUAL name.

Tess isn't bad, but I don't really like it. It seems like a little kid name to me. I don't know, I wouldn't use it, but it's not bad, and it sounds nice with Kate.

[omfg----hxc.livejournal.com]

Well, I got that he said Katherine was his mom's middle name and she took Kate from that...

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm just unsure of whether she named her Katherine and called her Kate, or just named her Kate. I don't think they ever say.

[bobinwales.livejournal.com]

I love Kate [not biased or anything...].
Tess is all right, but I'm not a huge fan!

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha I don't know why I didn't notice your icon until now, but major icon love coming from me.

[bobinwales.livejournal.com]

:D. Ta! I didn't make it though.

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

I prefer Tessa to Tess. ;o)

[lneef.livejournal.com]

Not awful, not great. They're both simple and pretty and nice, but they're also both nicknames. Theresa and Katherine would have been perfect.