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in reply to a message by Andromache
I hate Bronwen with seething passion. It`s too bumbly and masculine for a girl. Myfanwy sounds like a name found on an acid trip.
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I respect your opinion on Bronwen. There are names that no matter how much people want me to like them, I just can't. I do get that.
But I can't help but try with Bronwen, just in case. Have you ever read / seen a book / movie, "How Green was My Valley?" Apart from being a wonderful story, it was my introduction to Welsh names. There is a character named Bronwen that is decidedly feminine in it. (Hearing them said with a Welsh accent might help to acquire a taste for them.)
If you read my posts here generally you know that I am not a fan of masculine names on girls -- at all. But Bronwen, for all it's hard edges, is traditionally feminine. There is a roundness, an Earthy quality to her; a still-waters-run-deep attitude. It's an acquired taste to be sure, but one worth the effort.
Just a thought.
(I won't try to interest you in Myfanwy. She's definitely not for everyone.)
I respect your opinion on Bronwen. There are names that no matter how much people want me to like them, I just can't. I do get that.
But I can't help but try with Bronwen, just in case. Have you ever read / seen a book / movie, "How Green was My Valley?" Apart from being a wonderful story, it was my introduction to Welsh names. There is a character named Bronwen that is decidedly feminine in it. (Hearing them said with a Welsh accent might help to acquire a taste for them.)
If you read my posts here generally you know that I am not a fan of masculine names on girls -- at all. But Bronwen, for all it's hard edges, is traditionally feminine. There is a roundness, an Earthy quality to her; a still-waters-run-deep attitude. It's an acquired taste to be sure, but one worth the effort.
Just a thought.
(I won't try to interest you in Myfanwy. She's definitely not for everyone.)
This message was edited 3/3/2009, 9:49 AM
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It`s not so much that it`s masculine, per se,but that I picture a girl with the name as being kind of like the snobby girl in class who tries hard to be pretty,but ends up in too-small, stained hand-me-down capris, and becomes angry because people hate her behind her back, or in front of her. Y`know? It`s just so much like Bruno or Hubert, like Lex Luther`s assistant in the first superman movie.
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