About Abby Sandel

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  1. I like Therese, not enough to use. I like Teresa better and love Teresita. I really dislike Terry. Very doggish, dated and unisex. Tessa is cute.

  2. Thank you so much. 🙂 I’ve considered it for honoring a Teresa, which isn’t really my taste. Ingrid Therese was high on my list for a while and still floats around. I actually like the German pronunciation of te-RE-z? , but I doubt anyone would ever say it that way. I guess as a middle name it really wouldn’t matter, but I think it would still bother me.

  3. Oh, I love this. There was a book called “The Hero of Ticonderoga” or something like that which I read when I was nine or ten that had a character called Therese… pronounced ter-EZZ, I remember… and the name has left an impression on me after all these years. It’s just beautiful.

  4. It’s got nice associations (who can argue with Mother Teresa?), but I am not a fan. It has a 70s vibe to me.

  5. My mom’s name is Teresa, which I’m not incredibly fond of, but Therese is definitely an option for a future girl!

  6. For matric, one of my setwork books was Tar Baby by Toni Morrison. One of the characters was Therese, if I remember correctly .