Absolutely. Plus, it can definitely change (subtly or not) how people act towards you, and that can make a huge difference to a developing personality. Emerald is such a great name; you and my friend made an excellent choice for your mini Ems.

I also need to know that, for my own hair.

How do the pros actually figure out the bra size? Until I can go and get fitted, I'd love to figure it out, roughly, myself, because I've got bras that are 32s, 34s and 36s, in a similarly ridiculous array of cup sizes. I've been on a bunch of websites today and some say the band size is the actual measurement itself…

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To use your example, in my husband's Californian accent it sounds like "Marrrrrrrrrrrrr-ch"… my surname ends in "ar", too, and the same thing happens to my name when I'm in the US, too and it sounds so odd to me. (Of course, when I tell Americans my surname I always have to spell it even though it's not unusual at…

Those are amazing!

I would love that! No child of mine can have a name with an "ar" or "er" or "or" sound because it'll sound so weird to me when pronounced by the Californian side of the family.

Ha, I have kind of the opposite problem — when I think of any name I like that has an "ar" or "er" or "or" sound in it, I have to consider how the American side of the family would pronounce it, and American "r"s sound so odd to me that I'd have to veto all those names!

Were they really considering that? It's THE BEST NAME EVER.

Just go with exceptionally long!

I know an Emerald and she is AMAZING.

I met Meadowlark Lemon once and he was awesome.

I really like Lark… but it's reminding me that I know someone who recently named their daughter the French for lark, Alouette — LIKE THE SONG. THE SONG ABOUT TORTURING A SMALL BIRD.

The first boy I ever fancied was named Magnus. Now I'm daydreaming of teenaged Norwegians…

I really like the name Hadley for a girl. I think I first heard it because of Hadley Hemingway, but now I really enjoy Hadley Freeman's writing so I still like it.

"Home" to me sounds so totally personal. I feel almost like you can't buy or sell a home, you can only buy a house and then make it a home… if an estate agent kept banging on about homes to me I think I'd puke.

I have been dying to ask someone this, and maybe you are the person to answer it! If you call the things that go on that one particular region "underwear" then what word do you use for all the things that you wear under outerwear?

I read something really interesting a while ago about US English dropping the "ed" off adjectives, creating things like "ice water" and, in theory, "sequin dress". I have no idea how prevalent that is, of course.

I'm studying Spanish and I'm constantly making things "too personal" by saying "my" when I should say "the" (although I'm really into the "the" thing. I love how it sounds so oddly formal and vaguely scientific.)

I hate that! I refuse to even look at CVs of job/internship applicants who do that in their emails.