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Bede?

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ArsenicyOldFace · 24/08/2014 01:50

For a boy (obviously?)

As in 'The venerable...'

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florascotia · 24/08/2014 18:50

I can spell Venerable, honestly. The keyboard on this computer gets stuck ...

florascotia · 24/08/2014 18:49

I like it. Vereable Bed = awesome. Interesting name meaning too = prayer.

AberdeenAngusina · 24/08/2014 16:36

I like it. I've never met a Bede, but if I did, I'd think Bede, not Bead. I'd guess Bede had a brother Aidan and sisters Hilda and Ethel. I'd visualise them as bright, polite, cheerful children.

sandberry · 24/08/2014 16:24

Great! it's been on my list for ages and there weren't even three of them last year. Everyone can say it too.

ACM88 · 24/08/2014 12:56

I like it! Much better than name suggested in other thread!!

Castlemilk · 24/08/2014 10:56

Nice, but yes anyone not in the know will just think 'Bead?!'

Don't call his brother Hama.

But yes it is really nice. I don't see a problem at all really.

Unusual names are good.

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ArsenicyOldFace · 24/08/2014 10:49

No, but Dibble and Grub, Balenciaga, and Ehfuuuuuuwwwl (pronounced in a strong Cockney accent, if you please) all come to mind

Ehfuuuuuuuuwwwwl Grin

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ArsenicyOldFace · 24/08/2014 10:48

And actually if people thought I'd called my child Bead that would be quite funny

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SirChenjin · 24/08/2014 10:48

No, but Dibble and Grub, Balenciaga, and Ehfuuuuuuwwwl (pronounced in a strong Cockney accent, if you please) all come to mind Wink

What the hell - if you love it, go for it Smile. Just hide all beads from the wee chap and he'll be fine!

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ArsenicyOldFace · 24/08/2014 10:41

Not quite as snappy scaevola but at least nobody could mistake them for cufflink, button and ethel Smile

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scaevola · 24/08/2014 10:39

And you can then go on to have siblings Cuthbert, Berengaria and Ethelflaed!

PPaka · 24/08/2014 10:35

Never entered my head that some people would think it was bead.

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ArsenicyOldFace · 24/08/2014 10:27

I have actually heard of Bede the Venerable

Grin

Maybe I've hung about here too long, watching people hell-bent on calling their DC allsorts (most recently Scottish et al hilariously explaining the downside of 'Job' to an enthusiast) I just can't get excited about a few people potentially misunderstanding Bede as Bead.

I have time to mull it over though.

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SirChenjin · 24/08/2014 10:16

I know it's not made up, and I have actually heard of Bede the Venerable

Grin

It's just the bead thing....

PPaka · 24/08/2014 10:12

This is ds's middle name
It was a family name on dh's side
I love it

KenDoddsDadsDog · 24/08/2014 10:11

It's a really well recognised, sometimes used name in the NE. The bead thing tickled me though.

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ArsenicyOldFace · 24/08/2014 10:07

"Bede??" and I'm sure they think, 'that guy is called bead

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ArsenicyOldFace · 24/08/2014 10:06

Doesn't take much to correct Nigella and it is not a complicated spelling for people to remember, once they have been told.

I think it is shortlist-worthy at least.

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NigellasPeeler · 24/08/2014 10:01

its a great name but won't it be annoying when people think he is called 'Bead'?

GrapefruitAndCucumberLoveThem · 24/08/2014 10:01

A friend's husband is called this. I think it's awful. Everybody says "bede!", "Bede??" and I'm sure they think, 'that guy is called bead" Confused

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ArsenicyOldFace · 24/08/2014 10:01

Not a spelling made up last Tuedday, honest SirCh

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venerable_Bede

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ArsenicyOldFace · 24/08/2014 09:59

Well admirable historiography took a few centuries to get going scaevola Smile

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SirChenjin · 24/08/2014 09:58

Bead spelled Bede for a boy.....nope, not doing it for me, sorry - it's not a very strong name. Which is funny, because I love the look of the name, if that makes sense?

scaevola · 24/08/2014 09:56

Not Venerable, but Venomous

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ArsenicyOldFace · 24/08/2014 09:53

1 syllablle 3pigs pronounced the same as bead.

Thanks for the positive comments. I really like it for all the reasons you've said; Simple, strong, unusual, meaningful, nicely weighty Smile

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