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Cheryl?

31 replies

AlphaSchmalpha · 24/11/2010 16:39

opinions please!

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Ulysses · 24/11/2010 16:41

I think it's a pretty sounding name, but at the moment it reminds me of the eighties and Mrs Cole.

clumsymumluckybaby · 24/11/2010 19:44

nooooooo!

and i dont say that often.
everyone will think you've named her after ms coleHmm

KenDoddsDadsDog · 24/11/2010 19:45

No. Cheryl Cole or Cheryl from the Royle family.

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ja9 · 24/11/2010 19:47

yuk. sorry. know a few (who are lovely fwiw) but i really struggle to say their name... need to keep reminding myself to use the ch sound and not the 'sh' sound

Dolittlest · 24/11/2010 19:48

Awful. Cole cannot make it a good name. It is cheap, made up sounding, 80s-tastic and just 'orrible.

Jojay · 24/11/2010 19:52

Nope, horrid. Sorry.

Suncottage · 24/11/2010 19:53

I knew a 'Sheryl' once and she was barking mad. Pleeeease noooooo. Do it for me!

AlphaSchmalpha · 24/11/2010 22:12

good, glad you all agree - it is on "the list" of a really good friend, who I thought usually had excellent taste. I will do my best to talk her round. or send her here!

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LynetteScavo · 24/11/2010 22:14

Cheryl form Bucks Fizz, Cheryl Colse, Cheryl the girl I knew at high school....based on this I would say avoid.

randomimposter · 24/11/2010 22:16

just no

Suncottage · 24/11/2010 22:23

Rita Crudgington - that is the real name of Cheryl from Bucks Fizz - Cheryl is an improvement I guess.

Bue · 24/11/2010 22:23

Alpha, I'm so relieved it's not on YOUR list! It's horrible.

ShoppingDays · 25/11/2010 10:34

I like it :)

MelinaM · 25/11/2010 10:54

No, no and NO!!!! ..sorryWink

TheGashlycrumbTinies · 25/11/2010 10:56

Nooooooo !

IWouldNotCouldNotWithAGoat · 25/11/2010 13:59

no No NO!

nannynobnobs · 25/11/2010 14:00

Dislike. Noooooo.

kreecherlivesupstairs · 25/11/2010 14:01

No. All the Cheryls I've known have been self absorbed mares. I really don't like it as a name let alone with the connections I make with Ms D, W and G.

5GoldenFimbos · 25/11/2010 14:04

No

stressheaderic · 25/11/2010 21:56

Bloody awful.

sparkle12mar08 · 26/11/2010 10:17

Cheryl was my late mother's name, born in the 1940's. Her mil could never get the hard 'ch' right, as in church, and always said Sheryl. If we'd have had a daughter I would have loved to try and use it as a middle name but it is such a hard sounding name, and looks very odd written down too. And as everyone here has proved, it prejudices people something chronic...

thefurryone · 26/11/2010 14:36

All the Cheryls I've come across pronounce it Sheryl and I thought that was how Cole pronounced her name? Is it a North/ South thing?

Oddly I haven't liked any of the Cheryls I've known either!

sparkle12mar08 · 27/11/2010 09:24

If you're saying it as Sheryl, then it should also be spelt that way, surely? If spelt Cheryl then it is a hard 'ch' sound. Thankfully it was never a bone of contention between mum and her MIL and they got on famously, but you can imagine the sort of posts it might have led to can't you - "AIBU to think my MIL should pronounce my name correctly after twenty years?!" Tickles me.

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