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I secretly love…
Beulah. I feel like it’s one of those names that almost everyone hates, but I just think it’s adorable. I love the airiness of -lah prefixed with the punchy Beu-. What do you think, do you hate it? Thanks!
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I dislike it because the German "Beule" means "bump" as in "bumping your head".But I can see how it would be okay in an English speaking country. It is not awful.
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It's not my style and I wouldn't use it. It's also not my culture.
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I don't waste my hatred on unimportant things or things I can't change. So, no. But a world without Beulah would be a happier place; never has a name sounded more like a cow with sinusitis.
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You're not alone. It's always been a name I love, right from the time I was a child.
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Yay! :)
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I like it. It looks and sounds so grand, and it also has a 1920s vibe to it. The meaning is somewhat okay.
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Sorry, can’t stand it. The sound of the name is like someone vomiting!
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Yeah, I hate it. Firefly and Starfish have already explained why. I'm sorry.
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I hate it. It sounds like the noise a camel makes when it's dry heaving.I'm happy that you like it, though. It needs SOMEONE to love it, lol.
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Send me all of your unloved names, they will be loved here, haha.
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What about Bertha?
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I’ll take her :) It makes me thing of a sweet working class Victorian girl, or something.
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Lord, it's hideous. BYOOOOOO-la. Ugh. And so Puritan too. One of my least favourite names overall.
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You don’t think it’s BYOOOOOO-tiful? Haha!
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I'm afraid not haha!
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I actually like it
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I actually don’t think it’s that bad! It’s not so different to Bella in sound, and people seem to like that.
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It's the first syllable. Bewwwww sounds so whiny to me. I don't hate the name, but I don't like it. I also don't like the meaning. I would like it slightly more if it were pronounced Bow-la.
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Interesting! Bow-lah for me is just “bowler” so that would make me like it a lot less! Unless you mean bow to rhyme with now of course, in which case it sounds like bowel, haha.
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Don't like it at all
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Yes, I hate it! Hahaha. Everything about it is ugly! I hate the way "Beu" looks, and I think the "punchiness" of it is just awkward. And "lah" is silly and I think very incongruous with Beu.
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Hahaha, thanks!
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