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Beulah vs. Hortense
by Starfish and Coffee
11/6/2021, 10:53 AM
WHICH ONE FOR A DAUGHTER AND WHY???What would you use for a middle name, and what would you name a brother and sister?Thanksverymuch. :) **After supposedly dying on January 30, 2007 after eating tainted pancakes, she returned several times as an angel and was revealed to be alive on May 17, 2011. )**
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- JemimahGertrude
11/7/2021, 12:12 PM
I'd choose Beulah because of the gospel song. It has a very wistful, hopeful sound to it.Beulah Therese & her siblings Reuben Casper and Ingrid Elspeth
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- Ceri (Ceri12)
11/7/2021, 8:46 AM
Honestly I don’t like either one but if I had to choose I would use Hortense. Beulah sounds like a mean nasty and stuck up older woman in an antebellum romance novel. Maybe the hero’s spiteful mother.
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- Higuma (Higuma Kanora)
11/7/2021, 1:19 AM
Hortense, it's so pretty!Hortense Felicity or Hortense DorotheaSiblings would be Griselda and Bertrand
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- Fiammetta (lady murasaki)
11/6/2021, 11:34 PM
Hortense, I find Beulah very unattractive.
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- Claire (Rocket)
11/6/2021, 10:19 PM
Hortense. I associate Beulah with a nasty old lady.Hortense Paloma
Dulcie Isabella
Earnest George
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- Wordsmith
11/6/2021, 7:14 PM
I love Hortense! It's so romantic. Beulah is cute, but I prefer Eula.Hortense Vivienne, Ermengarde Lila, and Cuthbert Henry

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- ShioTanbo1
11/6/2021, 5:45 PM
I choose Beulah. Why? Hortense sounds manly. I'd name a son Hortense before I name a daughter Hortense, but I wouldn't choose it at all. (No offense to Hortense's out there.)
Beulah Diane ~pretty
Dunstan Marcus ~brother
Her brother needs an uncommon, but strong sounding first name to match her old-fashioned name..I think I did a good job here. *dusts off pants*
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- Kerilyntaryn21
11/6/2021, 2:10 PM
Beulah, I don't like either but really dislike hostessesSibling zilphah mordecaiMn Naomi
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- Anneza
11/6/2021, 1:03 PM
Beulah Marion
Sandrina Agnes
Martin JeremyOops - forgot the Why! So, ETA:I knew a girl at school whose younger sister was named Hortense. It was pronounced the French way, except they sounded the H; and they also nicknamed her Tansy, where the Tans had the French nasal pronunciation, the s was an s, not a z, and the y was the usual English ending. That was enough to put me right off Hortense for life. Beulah, then. Sandrina just seemed to fit, and Martin is sturdy and inoffensive. The mns also just seemed to fit. Plus, I don't like any of them, fn or mn! So they should go together well.

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- Martha (CarolineCarolina)
11/6/2021, 12:35 PM
Jeez. I mean, these are some seriously unfortunate names.Beulah is beyond. I could never curse someone with this butt trumpet of a name. So I guess Hortense it is...Hortense AnnabellaSister Drusilla and brother... Kyle
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- Felie
11/6/2021, 12:16 PM
Hi !!!I would use Hortense for sure!Hortense is bright, soft, warm and nature-themed.Beulah means "married"...what an austere and cold name! Horrible.

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- Ani (peonini)
11/6/2021, 12:09 PM
Beulah, because Hortense is abominable.
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- flossie (dnfosdgvn)
11/6/2021, 11:32 AM
BeulahBeulahBeulah. Beulah Georgiana, and her siblings Demelza Penelope and Ernst Augustus. Yes, I chose first names I think everyone will hate—and I’d do it again! Has anyone seen Come From Away? That makes me like Beulah even more. I’ve never been able to get behind Hortense.
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