Names (RP verse)
Tell the story behind your name (or nickname).
According to Daddy, Cordelia is a family name. The Chases have always given their kids C names, some weird obsession with alliteration or something. I always thought it was kind of corny, but then I named my daughter Christine, so who am I to talk?
I used to wonder if whatever ancestor first named their daughter Cordelia chose it because of the Shakespeare character (don't everyone die of shock that I knew Shakespeare), or if they just saw it somewhere and thought it was pretty. On the one hand, I think a lot of Daddy's family could be pretty snobby, but it wasn't the well-read kind of snobby that uses literary figures as baby name inspiration, you know? Frankly, I'm surprised I wasn't named Chanel. If my mother had her way... actually, if my mother had her way, I'd have been named Grace, after Grace Kelly. She always loved her, and I think she hoped naming me after someone who had gone from normal girl to Hollywood superstar to honest-to-goodness princess would bring me luck or something. Either way, it wasn't going to happen. Not only was Daddy set on the C thing, but Grace Chase would have sounded really lame.
Man, I can only imagine how much grief I'd have gotten with that name. Cordelia was bad enough. I won't lie: I kind of hated it when I was younger. It was different, none of the other dis had heard it before, and when you're a kid, the last thing you want is to be different. But when I got older, and saw that being the same as everyone else wasn't really such a great thing, I embraced it. It's pretty and not many other people have it, which makes it special.
The funny thing is, I have this name that's been in the Chase family for generations, and until a few years ago, had no idea I wasn't even a real Chase. Not by blood, at least. Now that I think about it, I can't help wondering what I would have been named if I had been born into the Osborn family instead. Luckily, they don't seem to be hung up on alliteration, otherwise I might have been Oprah or Olga or something. Or maybe they'd do the Shakespeare thing too, and I'd be Ophelia. Yuck.
When I think about it, I got pretty lucky. Cordelia Chase is an awesome name.
According to Daddy, Cordelia is a family name. The Chases have always given their kids C names, some weird obsession with alliteration or something. I always thought it was kind of corny, but then I named my daughter Christine, so who am I to talk?
I used to wonder if whatever ancestor first named their daughter Cordelia chose it because of the Shakespeare character (don't everyone die of shock that I knew Shakespeare), or if they just saw it somewhere and thought it was pretty. On the one hand, I think a lot of Daddy's family could be pretty snobby, but it wasn't the well-read kind of snobby that uses literary figures as baby name inspiration, you know? Frankly, I'm surprised I wasn't named Chanel. If my mother had her way... actually, if my mother had her way, I'd have been named Grace, after Grace Kelly. She always loved her, and I think she hoped naming me after someone who had gone from normal girl to Hollywood superstar to honest-to-goodness princess would bring me luck or something. Either way, it wasn't going to happen. Not only was Daddy set on the C thing, but Grace Chase would have sounded really lame.
Man, I can only imagine how much grief I'd have gotten with that name. Cordelia was bad enough. I won't lie: I kind of hated it when I was younger. It was different, none of the other dis had heard it before, and when you're a kid, the last thing you want is to be different. But when I got older, and saw that being the same as everyone else wasn't really such a great thing, I embraced it. It's pretty and not many other people have it, which makes it special.
The funny thing is, I have this name that's been in the Chase family for generations, and until a few years ago, had no idea I wasn't even a real Chase. Not by blood, at least. Now that I think about it, I can't help wondering what I would have been named if I had been born into the Osborn family instead. Luckily, they don't seem to be hung up on alliteration, otherwise I might have been Oprah or Olga or something. Or maybe they'd do the Shakespeare thing too, and I'd be Ophelia. Yuck.
When I think about it, I got pretty lucky. Cordelia Chase is an awesome name.