s/o; does your name have a y in it and if so, are you low class?

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Anonymous wrote:My name is Christina but people who don't know me well call me Christine. I hate that. "Christine" sounds like trailer trash. The "a" make ALL the difference.

And what about Khrystyna? OMG.

Christina sounds Italian or Latina to me. A little too frou frou for my personal tastes. Like your sister might be named Maria and you might live in The West Side Story.

Christine sounds Anglo/Irish or American to me.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My name is Christina but people who don't know me well call me Christine. I hate that. "Christine" sounds like trailer trash. The "a" make ALL the difference.

And what about Khrystyna? OMG.

Christina sounds Italian or Latina to me. A little too frou frou for my personal tastes. Like your sister might be named Maria and you might live in The West Side Story.

Christine sounds Anglo/Irish or American to me.

Christina here. Sorry to dash your preconceptions about my name. Totally Anglo/Germanic. Upper middle class. My sister's name is Gretchen of all things.

But Christina is pretty much a universal (well, at least Western) name, for obvious reasons. It means "Anointed by Christ."

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My name is Christina but people who don't know me well call me Christine. I hate that. "Christine" sounds like trailer trash. The "a" make ALL the difference.

And what about Khrystyna? OMG.

Christina sounds Italian or Latina to me. A little too frou frou for my personal tastes. Like your sister might be named Maria and you might live in The West Side Story.

Christine sounds Anglo/Irish or American to me.

Christina here. Sorry to dash your preconceptions about my name. Totally Anglo/Germanic. Upper middle class. My sister's name is Gretchen of all things.

But Christina is pretty much a universal (well, at least Western) name, for obvious reasons. It means "Anointed by Christ."

Sorry, I do know those things. But I still associate it with what I wrote above, because that is where I personally hear it the most. So, that is just one person's associations with your name. Don't worry, probably not most people's. But it is my own.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My name is Christina but people who don't know me well call me Christine. I hate that. "Christine" sounds like trailer trash. The "a" make ALL the difference.

And what about Khrystyna? OMG.

Christina sounds Italian or Latina to me. A little too frou frou for my personal tastes. Like your sister might be named Maria and you might live in The West Side Story.

Christine sounds Anglo/Irish or American to me.

Christina here. Sorry to dash your preconceptions about my name. Totally Anglo/Germanic. Upper middle class. My sister's name is Gretchen of all things.

But Christina is pretty much a universal (well, at least Western) name, for obvious reasons. It means "Anointed by Christ."

Sorry, I do know those things. But I still associate it with what I wrote above, because that is where I personally hear it the most. So, that is just one person's associations with your name. Don't worry, probably not most people's. But it is my own.

No worries. I'm sure I'd have opinions on your name if you chose to reveal it, esp. if it had a "y" in it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My name is Christina but people who don't know me well call me Christine. I hate that. "Christine" sounds like trailer trash. The "a" make ALL the difference.

And what about Khrystyna? OMG.

Christina sounds Italian or Latina to me. A little too frou frou for my personal tastes. Like your sister might be named Maria and you might live in The West Side Story.

Christine sounds Anglo/Irish or American to me.

Christina here. Sorry to dash your preconceptions about my name. Totally Anglo/Germanic. Upper middle class. My sister's name is Gretchen of all things.

But Christina is pretty much a universal (well, at least Western) name, for obvious reasons. It means "Anointed by Christ."

Sorry, I do know those things. But I still associate it with what I wrote above, because that is where I personally hear it the most. So, that is just one person's associations with your name. Don't worry, probably not most people's. But it is my own.

No worries. I'm sure I'd have opinions on your name if you chose to reveal it, esp. if it had a "y" in it.

Yes, we all carry our own connotations based upon our life experiences, where we're from, etc.

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I grew up in Scotland and Christina was popular there.

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Definitely lots of Ys and Is in the lower middle class side of my family. I have one in my name too, but we were upper middle when I was born and growing up. My mom did grow up in a lower middle class family.

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Someone should really tell Hillary Clinton that her name is low class and she will amount to nothing in this world because her name ends with a "y".

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I've thought a lot about this particular topic and have come to the conclusion that unnecessary "y"s and "k"s in names are tacky. These letters are unnecessary if a non-made up version of the name can be spelled with another letter (e.g. an "i" or a "c"). The exception I make for this is "y"s at the end of names because those tend to be better than "ie" at the end of the name.

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kimberly

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I knew a Krystyn. She wasn't trashy and her parents didn't seem like the type to pull out a crazy spelling for attention. Not sure where it came from.

Y's don't bug me. Using an I at the end of a name instead of a traditional Y looks trashier to me.

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Anonymous wrote:My name is Christina but people who don't know me well call me Christine. I hate that. "Christine" sounds like trailer trash. The "a" make ALL the difference.

And what about Khrystyna? OMG.

Christina sounds Italian or Latina to me. A little too frou frou for my personal tastes. Like your sister might be named Maria and you might live in The West Side Story.

Christine sounds Anglo/Irish or American to me.

Another Christina here and IMO, the trashy version of Christina is Tina, Christy or Kristina. The latin version is Cristina. I have a very Italian last name (married), so coworkers have been very surprised when they meet a blonde haired, blue eyed woman.

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Anonymous wrote:My name is Crystal and I am low class pretending to be high class.

Julia Roberts/Pretty Woman just came to mind. lol

[Anonymous]

I think Mary is a little low class. The first famous Mary gave birth in a barn. You can't really get any lower class than that.

Signed,

Mary