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Help[Opinions] Re: Change in opinions
in reply to a message by hello_1234
I used to not like Hermione, Chandler, Irene, Maeve, Bronwyn, Darby, and Gayla because I thought they sounded unattractive. I used to not like Geoffrey and Neveah because their spellings bothered me a lot. I started liking Bertha when I found out that it was pronounced BEHR-ta in German. I only like that pronunciation for it. I started liking Lorraine when I found it was pronounced "luh-rayn".
The names that I dislike, I've always disliked them. I try not to let silly things put me off names that I already like.
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The names that I dislike, I've always disliked them. I try not to let silly things put me off names that I already like.
https://youtube.com/@MarioDrama632 or
https://youtube.com/@Objects_2763 :3
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I totally agree about Bertha! In Afrikaans the pronunciation is like the German, and my mother-in-law, from an Afrikaans family, used it until she grew up and joined an accounting firm which happened to have mostly English staff. Then she changed to BERTHa and married my completely bilingual father-in-law. I never knew her, she died when her son (my husband) was five, and though she seems to have been a splendid person, I do regret her choice of name.