Just Sam, actually 🙂 Samuel was TOO FANCY I guess. 😀
[…] from my earliest years I have had a feeling of Dislike & Disgust connected with my own Christian Names: such a vile short plumpness, such a dull abortive smartness, in [the] first Syllable, & this so harshly contrasted by the obscurity & indefiniteness of the syllabic Vowel, & the feebleness of the uncovered liquid, with which it ends – the wabble it makes, & staggering between a diss- & a tri-syllable – & the whole name sounding as it you were abeeceeing. S.M.U.L. – altogether it is perhaps the worst combination, of which vowels & consonsants are susceptible. (Letters, II:1126)
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge did not like his first name
“In the margins of the works of the admirable Reverend (not Doctor) Samuel Johnson, Coleridge remarks that, even despite the ‘palliative Consolation’ of such inspiring precursors as Johnson and Dr Samuel Barrow, ‘Nothing can reconcile me to my wobbling name, Samuel’, and he even casts doubt on whether it is a properly Christian name at all (Marginalia, III:165).”
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