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Boaz, nn Bo, is wonderful. Your dh has good taste. I'll spill the beans and admit that I much prefer Bo to Beau. I find Beau girly -- and yes, I do see the irony in that. Perhaps it's because I love Isabeau for a girl. Also, Beau reminds me of "The Glass Menagerie" with the mother always pining for her lost youth and the beaux she's forever going on about. So depressing. Compared to that, Bo is downright masculine and peppy. As a nn for Boaz it's even "hunkier." :-)

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Disclosure: One more reason that I love Bo is that it means cow in Irish. So few people know that outside of Ireland that I don't see it being a problem. I just love the idea of a feminine animal being used as a boy's name. Um, so why don't I like Beau on a boy if I find it girly? I know, I'm using circular logic. Just put it down to a weird personal quirk.