I really dislike
Beatrice. I think of "beat rice" and of two frumpy old ladies (both very nice, though) who lived next door to us when I was a kid, in succession to each other. They both answered to "Beattie". (Our neighbour on the other side was called
Gertrude ) One of them lived with her sister,
Alice.
Beatrix is somewhat better imo (what a difference that x makes!)
This message was edited 1/10/2012, 2:03 PM