Quick Fire Questions (A Place to Ask and Answer)

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I'm gonna have to find another shapeshifter for the Akshara name. It's too god not to use.

Robin? For a super hero character? Wonder what Batman would say?

Alex? Already have a character called Allan. A little too similar.

Jo? Tuckerism, Springs?

Bobby and Terry are possibilities...
 
Vertigo said:
Robin - just look how many times people think Robin Hobb is a guy.
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I think it's typically because, or at least here, Robin is the male way of writing the name. For a woman, I'd use Robyn. And of course when you think Robin, the comedian Robin Williams - a guy - will be the first person most people think of.

Just like Terry is the male, Terri is the female. And how Frances is female, Francis is male.



My Suggestion:

Charlie. When a woman is called Charlie, it's short for Charlotte. When for a man it means Charles.
 
Warren_Paul said:
My Suggestion:

Charlie. When a woman is called Charlie, it's short for Charlotte. When for a man it means Charles.
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I'd have thought it was Charley for a boy called Charles, and Charlie for Charlotte...
 
I was going to say Charlie!

How about Morgan?

There's an Irish name, Dara, that I've seen applied to both also.

Edit: I'm with allymywires. A quickfire question - what's your avatar?
 
shouldnt it be Robyn for male and Robin for female? all the other male/female names are Y-masculine I-feminine. Tony/Toni, Terry/Terri, Gerry/Gerri

and please dont pick on dyslexics with Micheal/Michael or however that names goes
 
To quote Wiki:
Robin was originally a diminutive given name of Robert, derived from the prefix Rob- (hrod, Old Germanic, meaning "fame"), and the suffix -in (Old French diminutive). More recently, it is used as an independent name. The name Robin is uncommon (but not unique) in being a masculine given name, feminine given name, and a surname.
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Robin for the male, Robyn for the female, no idea why. and I'm with all my wires too, which means either you're right, or the Irish are confused... :D Dara is a good eg, and Aussies often have irish names, don't they? Chris is another.
 
pyan said:
I'd have thought it was Charley for a boy called Charles, and Charlie for Charlotte...
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If you do an imdb search it comes up as Charlie for the nickname used for many actors called Charles.

For instance, Charlie Chapman's actual name is Charles Chapman, but Charlie sounds much better.


EDIT: Bah, people posting while editing.
 
Micky? Michael/Michaela

George is used as a shortened version of Georgina in the Famous Five books by Enid Blyton, to much comedic effect at times...
 
hopewrites said:
and please dont pick on dyslexics with Micheal/Michael or however that names goes
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Hebrew names usually end in 'El' (God), solved it for ya :)

EDIT: Might be too much of a strange one, but I have a female friend named Stevie (after Ms Nicks). So you could go that way.
 
I have a female friend named Charley (spelled like so) and a female friend named Dara.

How's about Nic? Or Ashley? Or Tracy?
 
Or Eliot? Cameron? Mel? Dale? Or Kim? The more you think, the more there seems to be...
 
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