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Help[Opinions] Re: Elijah
in reply to a message by BBH
I was crazy for this name (along with Jonah) when I was 16 or so, I thought it was just divine. So soft and gentle-sounding, and I paid no heed to the Bible connections whatsoever.
As I've grown older I find that it's become a little flat as well as overzealous sounding - like Llewella said, a little bit "Bible-trendy". I certainly would not feel comfortable using it now and would expect the family of an Elijah to be very religious in a glossy, crazy-eyed born again kind of way.
BUT it is still a beautiful name. I honestly don't think Benjamin Elijah flows well, though - or maybe it fows TOO well: it makes me feel like I have apple sauce dripping out of my mouth, it's a slurry of similar sounds. I actually think Arthur Elijah sounds kick-butt though. In this case the religious background of Elijah lends a wonderful kind of New-World pioneer fervour to the name - he sounds like a hardworking young man with good stable morals from a line of Pilgrims. Benjamin Elijah sounds very much contemporary and yuppie to me.
I'm on team Arthur Elijah!
As I've grown older I find that it's become a little flat as well as overzealous sounding - like Llewella said, a little bit "Bible-trendy". I certainly would not feel comfortable using it now and would expect the family of an Elijah to be very religious in a glossy, crazy-eyed born again kind of way.
BUT it is still a beautiful name. I honestly don't think Benjamin Elijah flows well, though - or maybe it fows TOO well: it makes me feel like I have apple sauce dripping out of my mouth, it's a slurry of similar sounds. I actually think Arthur Elijah sounds kick-butt though. In this case the religious background of Elijah lends a wonderful kind of New-World pioneer fervour to the name - he sounds like a hardworking young man with good stable morals from a line of Pilgrims. Benjamin Elijah sounds very much contemporary and yuppie to me.
I'm on team Arthur Elijah!
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