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I've always been conused about this too. Even in season 6 Emma referred to Ella as Ashley and Red as Ruby. I suppose from Emma's perspective, she spent about 5-6 months calling people by their curse names so it's just a hard habit to break, but I can't think of why others do it.

Surely you'd want to break away from your cursed self?