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Amy or Beverly?
Which do you like best, or hate the least? Please put it in the subject line. :) "And by the way, dearie, your punctuation sucks canal water!"
-The Ghost of Vivian Vance
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Amy
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Amy
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Poor Beverly. Comparing it to Amy makes it seem even more clunky than it is.
Beverly vs. Tina might be more fair.
Beverly was supposed to sound expensive, I think, but it just sounds like beverage and heavily.
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It gives me the opposite impression. I don't see it as clunky, I see it as friendly and warm and bright. Like a freckled-face kid.
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Amy, just because of Amy Pond.
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AmyIts more classic and less dated (imo) than Beverly. Beverly is still Golden Girls here in the US.
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Beverly
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AmyBeverly sounds too old-fashioned for me.
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AmyI have good character associations with the name, so definitely my favourite.
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Beverley (where I live) is fresher but both are boring.
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Amy
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AmyAmy. This was the name of one of my best friends as a kid and it has always felt like a kind warm name to me.Beverly doesn't have negative associations but I find it a touch hard to say and don't like any nicknames
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AmyBeverly is still slightly too old-lady for me.Amy might be a tad dated, but it still feels modern to me, and is very sweet and friendly. I have met a baby Amy in recent years and it worked just fine, in my opinion.
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Both!Seriously, I don't mind either name.
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Amy...It's classic and underrated. Beverly is just too dated.
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AmyAimee is my favorite spelling
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Amy, without doubt.:)
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Amy is better but I don't like either
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Amy...I prefer Amy as a nickname to Amity or Amaryllis. But it's got a nasally, whiney sound that I don't like. Beverly means beavers... and it just sounds old. In sound alone, it's got more substance than Amy, but I don't much care for the sound.

This message was edited 7/7/2016, 10:54 PM

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prefer Amy to Beverlyxo
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Beverly / Beverley!!
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Amy.
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AmyIt's not a favorite, but it's OK. My only association to Beverly is Beverly Hills or a beaver, so I don't like it at all.
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Amy by a billion landslides. Amy is good. Beverly is yuck, yuck and triple yuck
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AmyI think Beverly's nice, too.
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AmyIt's more feminine and less dated.
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that's a hard choice ...Amy sounds less like somebody's grandmother, but Beverly doesn't sound quite so washed-out and bland.
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AmyActually I objectively prefer Beverly to Amy in sound, but Beverly feels way to frumpy and I just can't get on board. Usually that doesn't bother me, but Beverly rubs me the wrong way.It might be because I went to school with one who was very dated in the way she dressed and acted. It was like she acted like an old lady, but she was just a kid. She was truly a Beverly at heart.
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This may be a reason I dislike Beverly: It makes me feel guilty.When I was a child, there was a girl named Beverly who lived down the street. My friends and I were cruel to her and excluded her. I don't know why, there was nothing about her to particularly invite that treatment. We were all mean to her, but as I recall I was the ringleader. I can remember doing it but I can't get inside my child mind to understand why I was doing it. I feel bad about it. So Beverly conjures up negative feelings.
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Don't really like either, but if I have to, AmyAmy to me is somewhat insubstantial and too sticky sweet, like cotton candy, but Beverly is fugly, so Amy is the lesser of two evils.
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AmyEven though Amy was most popular 20/30 years ago it still seems on trend, and has a much more timeless quality (think Amy Marsh in Little Woman) where as Beverly specifically brings to mind either a 60 or older woman or a 90 year old man. I also just don't find the sound of Beverly attractive at all.
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AmyAmy.
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AmySimple sound, easy and straightforward in nature. Plus, it's a bit more ageless than Beverly - which is lovely but dated at best.
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Yay! Someone else who thinks Beverly is lovely! ;)
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