<p>I was talking to a recent Choate grad ('06) and I asked him what he thought of the name Livy and he said I sound more like a Livy.</p>
<p>I might try it. I also like it when people call me Livy. I was thinking of telling people at camp in July that that's my name so I can get some practice responding to it rather than Olivia. ^^</p>
<p>Any opinions?</p>
<p>It's ballin'. :cool:</p>
<p>well, i don't kow which one you sound more like, but Livy is a cool name. i know this girl named Olivia but she just goes by Liv. i think i prefer Livy though.:)</p>
<p>C'mon, Chaos, I need more answers than that! :o But oh welll. I'm glad you're hanging out here again.</p>
<p>Thanks hopeful. :) I like Livy with a y better than an i = I just don't like the sound of Livi.</p>
<p>I live "Livy". Personally, I think it sounds a little nicer than Olivia. But that's just because I have deep personal issues with the letter "O". :D</p>
<p>You know when I go out for fast food, I'm looking for calories. Calories and good taste. Maybe not in that order. So that's why I often have a Cheese Quarter Pounder. Or maybe a Whopper when I'm at the King. Chinese Food is good too.</p>
<p>I'm sorry, fun is fun, I don't really get it. What does that have to do with Livy.</p>
<p>I've changed my name to Duke. Or The Hammer. Haven't decided, I'll let you know.</p>
<p>Either is good. I still don't get the fast foot comment, though.</p>
<p>Me neither. What about Amazon Jack? I like that one.</p>
<p>IMO-- I like the name Livy, but it's a little wierd when people just decide to change their names all of a sudden.</p>
<p>My personal favourite is Duke. Amazon Jack and Hammer are tied for second.
mj930--She's not quite changing it, I don't think; it's just a nickname for Olivia.</p>
<p>I like it. Certainly better than Olly. But then I'm prejudiced - a lot of people call my Dad Livy, Livs or Levi, short for Livingston.:)</p>
<p>Livy has nice classical-history connotations, too :)</p>
<p>Other name changes that were not name changes:</p>
<p>Tony Dor-SETT, the running back, was known in college as Tony DOR-sett. The emphasis on the second syllable was adopted to make it sound more French/Exotic and "high class."</p>
<p>Joe THEES-man (Theismann), the quarterback, had his name changed by the Notre Dame Sports Information Dept. to Joe THIGHS-man (same spelling, just a pronunciation thing) so that it would rhyme with the Heisman Trophy that he didn't end up winning.</p>
<p>Peter Marshall, the longtime host of Hollywood Squares, was born Peter LaCock, so he took his well-known stage name. But his major league baseball playing son decided not to use the Marshall name and played first base for the Kansas City Royals as Pete LaCock.</p>
<p>The poet Christopher Marlowe's name appeared with different spellings over his life. His birth certificate shows his name was Marlow and in his one known signature he spelled his surname Marley. Despite frequent changes in his name over his lifetime, it's not clear whether those names took on differing pronunciations in Elizabethan England.</p>
<p>Personally, I'm still puzzling over some other name changes to get too wrapped up in Livy-Olivia. When, for instance, did Peking become Beijing and why don't we order Beijing Duck? </p>
<p>Then there's the whole Libyan dictator thing, in which, practically overnight, headline writers started spelling Khaddafi with a "Q" (and no "u" to follow to compound my misery). </p>
<p>But of all the name changes that puzzle me, it's the second extinction of the Brontosaurus, the friendly leaf-eating dinosaur that received posthumous recognition as a cute logo for its contribution to the bottom line of the Sinclair Oil Co. Of all the name changes that don't make sense, it's one for an animal that's been extinct for tens of thousands of years before man could give it a name. Somehow -- without first consulting me -- the Brontosaurus had its name changed to Apatosaurus. As if it cares! All I know is that some classic Flintstones gags are going to be lost on future generations. Am I the only one losing sleep over this?</p>
<p>I love the name Livy, and in my opinion it sounds much more fun and outgoing then Olivia. But what do your parents think about this, like out of curiosity. I'm not so sure my parents would be thrilled if one day i just decided to change my name.</p>
<p>It's a nickname, not really changing her name. Doesn't pretty much everybody have a couple different names they're called by people?</p>
<p>Alas, poor Flintstone...I knew him, D'yer Maker...a fellow of infinite jest...</p>
<p>The problem was that when they first assembled (or re-assembled!) the dino in question they didn't have all the bits. So the prof in charge (my memory fails but his name might have been Murray) added on a head that he had found in more or less the same place and named the result Brontosaurus. Just shy of a hundred years later, a new team took a look and said, 'by Jove, that's the wrong skull" (see Hamlet above). So they dug around and found what they now think is the right one and called their construct Apatosaurus. </p>
<p>But fear not, the Brontosaurus burger still bestrides this world like a Colossus!</p>
<p>Entre nous, Olivia, I like the name Livy very much but perhaps you should consider two v's...Livvy. It would help other people to pronounce it properly instead of Lie-vy.</p>
<p>I went to HS with a guy named Rod Klotz. Seriously.</p>
<p>What about Steel? or Ironman? </p>
<p>Dudester?</p>