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Help[Opinions] Re: Opal & Myrtle
in reply to a message by Billina
Crepe myrtles and opals are pretty.
I don't know any people named either.
I haven't yet gotten past how much Opal sounds like 'offal' to me, similar to how I can't get past how much Beryl sounds like 'barrel' but worse. If I met a kid named Opal, I'd think it was in the style of Olive, plain but colorful vintage and a bit tart or sour, plus I could find symbolism for it that I liked fairly easily.
The URT sound in Myrtle is 'ugly' to my ear - Burt, Curt (masculine, old), Gertrude, Alberta, Roberta (hard, 'dirty Gertie', vintage, cold, robust, red); also Liberty (modern, free, quaint) or if I soften the T - Bertha, Mercy (rotund, antiquated, severe, sweet). The first similar sounding word that comes to mind is 'turtle'.
Myrtle kind of seems like Gladys to me - I think of big glasses and big, bright flowers. Nerdy and unapologetically loud. My image of Myrtle right now has frizzy hair and a statement coat. It seems to me vaguely in the style of Marigold, Rosemary, Mabel, Florence, but bolder, perhaps awkwardly so but oh well.
I don't know any people named either.
I haven't yet gotten past how much Opal sounds like 'offal' to me, similar to how I can't get past how much Beryl sounds like 'barrel' but worse. If I met a kid named Opal, I'd think it was in the style of Olive, plain but colorful vintage and a bit tart or sour, plus I could find symbolism for it that I liked fairly easily.
The URT sound in Myrtle is 'ugly' to my ear - Burt, Curt (masculine, old), Gertrude, Alberta, Roberta (hard, 'dirty Gertie', vintage, cold, robust, red); also Liberty (modern, free, quaint) or if I soften the T - Bertha, Mercy (rotund, antiquated, severe, sweet). The first similar sounding word that comes to mind is 'turtle'.
Myrtle kind of seems like Gladys to me - I think of big glasses and big, bright flowers. Nerdy and unapologetically loud. My image of Myrtle right now has frizzy hair and a statement coat. It seems to me vaguely in the style of Marigold, Rosemary, Mabel, Florence, but bolder, perhaps awkwardly so but oh well.
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