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[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

Sapphira

What are your thoughts? It's not my favorite or anything, so feel free to be as honest as you want. I anticipate many of the comments will go more in a stripper direction, and while I understand that point of view, I'd also like some more open-minded opinions on if you actually knew or imagined knowing a real normal girl/woman who was NOT a stripper, do you think you'd get used to it or even like it?

I just think it has so much potential. I love the stone (my birth stone) and I love the way the name looks written down and the way it sounds too. I just wonder if it's a hopelessly stigmatized name.

And what is it about Ruby, Opal, and Pearl that makes them more acceptable as names anyway?

Thanks for your thoughts and opinions.

Edit: No, I do not mean Sapphire. I mean Sapphira. (sa-FEAR-uh or sa-FIE-rah) Separate but obviously related. I would've thought that was obvious, but I guess some of you haven't heard the name version before.

Comments

[poespretty.livejournal.com]

maybe the old fashioned-ness of the other names makes them more acceptable? I mean I don't know who started it or when, but maybe if they had used Sapphira back at the turn of the century it might be ok now? that's weird to think about huh?

personally, I don't care for Sapphira. when I prn. it at least, it sounds like 'Seveera'...it reminds me of the word 'severe'. just nms.

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the comment, the "severe" sound is a good point.

[poespretty.livejournal.com]

:)

[neroli.livejournal.com]

The name Sapphira was used in a novel by the American writer Willa Cather (1873-1947). Published in 1940, the story took place in the American south in the 1800s... so Cather, at least, (presumably) regarded it as a plausible name for that time and place.

I haven't read the book, so I can't say anything about the character that the Amazon synopsis couldn't say better.