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Amabel?

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212VIP · 14/08/2013 22:23

Thoughts please!

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MoosheKoochak · 14/08/2013 22:51

I think it's lovely. I semi-considered it for DD1, but DH didn't like it (he's very fussy though). It means something like "loveable", doesn't it?

But I guess the first few comments would be the reactions the poor girl would get... and whenever she wrote it, it would be misread as Annabel.

Maud2011 · 14/08/2013 22:49

It's lovely.

cafecito · 14/08/2013 22:48

Typo

Kikibee · 14/08/2013 22:48

There is a lady amabel Lindsay who lives just outside hungerford, I think it is a pretty name but I guess i am in the minority

FluffedUpFerretOnSteroids · 14/08/2013 22:45

I think its really pretty I always think an unusual name is better :) go with what you prefer

LatinForTelly · 14/08/2013 22:44

I knew an Amabel who would now be about 40. I think it's pretty. Once we were corrected the first time, we never forgot it Grin.

IHeartKingThistle · 14/08/2013 22:44

I know an Ama and I love the name. But the family are Ghanaian and it's a traditional name there for a girl born on a certain day of the week.

Amabel....hmmm. Don't think so, sorry.

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212VIP · 14/08/2013 22:40

Down south (Berkshire) accent.
Boo.
General consensus not good :(

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Slainte · 14/08/2013 22:39

What everlong said.

BehindLockNumberNine · 14/08/2013 22:39

Soo good I said it twice!! (sorry)

BehindLockNumberNine · 14/08/2013 22:38

Nope, sorry, does not sound pretty. Not in any way, shape or form.

Stick with Annabel, Belle for short...

BehindLockNumberNine · 14/08/2013 22:38

Nope, sorry, does not sound pretty. Not in any way, shape or form.

Stick with Annabel, Belle for short...

FluffedUpFerretOnSteroids · 14/08/2013 22:38

I love unusual names my name is and I love that no one else i know has the same name, i think its a good name :)

Stokes · 14/08/2013 22:37

It looks like a misspelling and sounds like someone asking if they're pretty (Am I Bell?).

everlong · 14/08/2013 22:35

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212VIP · 14/08/2013 22:35

But say it out loud?
Confusion aside it sounds very pretty?

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nilbyname · 14/08/2013 22:35

I mean that would be rubbish. It's a silly choice I think. What's up with Anabelle?

CruCru · 14/08/2013 22:35

If said in my hometown accent, it would sound like lazy speaking - particularly as it would go Ama - bewl.

Are you on the south coast? What accent would it be said in?

nilbyname · 14/08/2013 22:34

Forever having to explain that it is not a spelling error? Rubbish.

CoteDAzur · 14/08/2013 22:33

Seriously? It was funny as a spelling mistake.

KirstyJC · 14/08/2013 22:33

Nope, sorry - a lifetime of getting it spelled wrong and mispronounced. Annabel is lovely though.

BronaghT · 14/08/2013 22:32

Not good. Sounds like a mistake. Too much like Annabel.

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212VIP · 14/08/2013 22:30

Not a spelling mistake.
Annabel but with an 'm'.
Am-a-bel. Maybe belle for short.

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CoteDAzur · 14/08/2013 22:30

Behind Grin

BehindLockNumberNine · 14/08/2013 22:26

I am a bell?

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