So, if you have spent any time in the ACD canon fandom you will have encountered conversations about why Holmes and Watson always use each other’s surnames and never each other’s first names (or, as they would have put it, “Christian names”) when speaking to each other, even in private. And if you have spent a LOT of time in the ACD canon fandom, you may have encountered conversations about whether this would change if hypothetically speaking they Declared Their Love or Became A Couple.
So, in addition to what everyone else has to say on the subject, it occurred to me that it’s significant that during the first of the three trials involving Oscar Wilde and the Marquess of Queensberry–the one where Queensberry was the defendant–there’s a whole thing in Sir Edward Carson’s cross-examination of Wilde about Christian names.
My name would be Mylah. With all apologies to anyone named Mylah, I am now very happy to be named not Mylah.
My name today would be Athena. BORN TOO SOON!!!
Hannah. I could live with that.
I’d be an Emma. I don’t know what name fits me but Emma definitely is not it.
Gwyneth which is actually my mom’s middle name😱
I’d be Autumn. My 2014 name would Genesis (?!?), but my favorite would be my 1940s, which would be Willie!
My name would be Capri.
Bwahahahaha! My today name would be Brooklyn. But my favorite is that my 1900s name would be WILLIE. I would love Willie.
I’m a Jennifer born in 1973. Yeah. I’m Emma now, and “Mary” pretty much back until the dawn of time.
I’m an Andrea from 1974, making me a Penelope today, which…yeah, that does seem equivalent. (Going back 40 years to 1934 gets Marie, and 40 years before that to 1894 gets Sarah. Huh.)
From and ‘89 Jennifer to a 2015 Abigail…nope. I do like Ethel from 1900
I’d be Anneliese now. I like that my 1970 name would be Zelda. My 1900s name would be… Trannie
