randallsquared comments on What's In A Name? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: randallsquared 01 July 2009 01:24:05PM 0 points [-]

If Candy doesn't like being Candy, she can grow up and call herself C. Eleanor or something.

Or "Candida", which is likely what her full name would be anyway if "her parents named her 'Candy'", and doesn't have the same connotations as "Candy".

Comment author: Cyan 01 July 2009 02:47:05PM *  1 point [-]

"Candace", surely? Candida is a genus of yeast.

Comment author: randallsquared 03 July 2009 02:24:24AM 1 point [-]

Candace does appear to be far more common than Candida, but Candida broke the top 600 names in the 1930s. Even Candace is under that mark, now.