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in reply to a message by erb816
It sounds matronly in a cold and forborne way, and I can't resist pronouncing it URSH-u-lə for some reason. I'm not very fond of it, I can only imagine it on a nun interested in cross-breeding peas. Urszula is quite common here, but I have never met one who doesn't go by Ula.
masculine list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/191050/124079
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masculine list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/191050/124079
feminine list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/191050/124080
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That... is an interesting image. Peas, specifically? :-P
My neck of the woods (really, everything within an hour's driving distance) has a huge Polish population, but I don't think I've ever encountered Urszula. I've met and spoken to women named Sylwia (this is common enough that when someone at work tells me their name is Sylvia, I ask "V or W?"), Ewelina, Oliwia, Katarzyna (I've always thought the Polish variant of Katherine was really pretty), Beata... but never an Urszula. I had no idea the name was so popular in Poland. I don't think it sounds bad (though I still vastly prefer Ursula), but after saying it a few times I don't think I like "Ula" as a nickname.
My neck of the woods (really, everything within an hour's driving distance) has a huge Polish population, but I don't think I've ever encountered Urszula. I've met and spoken to women named Sylwia (this is common enough that when someone at work tells me their name is Sylvia, I ask "V or W?"), Ewelina, Oliwia, Katarzyna (I've always thought the Polish variant of Katherine was really pretty), Beata... but never an Urszula. I had no idea the name was so popular in Poland. I don't think it sounds bad (though I still vastly prefer Ursula), but after saying it a few times I don't think I like "Ula" as a nickname.
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