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[oryxandcake.livejournal.com]

I have recently picked up the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. I really like the name Gulliver, (enough to really think about using it on a future child). Its really unusual and to make it even more so, I think I would love it on a girl. WDYT? Is it too out there?

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[oryxandcake.livejournal.com]

Fair enough :)

nms?

[satunian.livejournal.com]

nms = not my style. I agree with the above comment.

[bouncepogo.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[ironqueen.livejournal.com]

I think Gulliver would be nice for a boy.

[kilobites.livejournal.com]

Gulliver would be nice for a boy, but terrible on a girl.

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

Gulliver on a girl is terrible. Gulliver on a boy in unusual and I don't think I like it.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Gulliver on a boy would be silly, but Gulliver on a girl would be atrocious, sorry. Plus, what would people call her? Gull? Gully?

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

Is Gulliver the Atticus or Harper of tomorrow?

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

LMAO!

[redriotroses.livejournal.com]

Please don't! Gulliver on a girl sounds appalling. Gulliver on a boy is bad enough.

[azelmaroark.livejournal.com]

Is it too out there?

Y.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I think that it'd be really awful on a girl. It's almost too out there for a boy, to begin with.

[yukonsally]

too out there for either sex.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

gulliver does not seem like a unisex name to me. =/

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

I don't think it works very well as a first name on either sex, although it's almost kinda cute on a boy. On a girl, I don't think it works well at all. What do you think of Gulliver's first name, Lemuel?

Gulliver's Travels is one of my favorite books. When I was thirteen, my mom brought home a sweet little female puppy, and when asked for name suggestions, I begged her to call the dog Glumdalclitch, after my favorite character. "We could call her Glum for short!" Mom was less than enthusiastic.

[ex-londonso.livejournal.com]

It reminds me of A Clockwork Orange:

In A Clockwork Orange, Alex and his gang of thugs speak of "breaking someone's gulliver" -- that is, to fracture their skull. This is because the kids in Burgess' dystopia speak a slang that combined Russian and English -- and "golova" is Russian for "head."

It also reminds me of gullet, and your child might get the unfortunate nickname of Gully.