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I hear Hugh and want to say "Bless you" or Gesundheit ...
and there was a fart joke I heard as a child, which I've forgotten, but the punchline was a word ending in a -yew sound, that was drawn out. The sound of Hugh reminds me of that. It's generally reminiscent of pneumatic sounds. It doesn't help my image of Hugh, that I have not known a Hugh personally. I think of Grant and Jackman, and when I hear Jackman's name I don't really think of him being a "Hugh" because I hear "Huge."

Ralph was a name we made fun of as children, not because it was associated with vomit but because it just sounds so ugly.
But then there is also the (imo amusing, I guess I have a childish sense of humor) image of "calling Ralph on the big white telephone."

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I actually think Ralph is a better name than Hugh. It seems like the name of a regular person. It could seem suitable on a handsome guy. Hugh seems anemic and stuffed-shirty to me and I have a harder time imagining it on someone handsome and fun. JMHO

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- mirfak

This message was edited 6/24/2022, 10:41 AM