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[unbakedbrownie.livejournal.com]

I am a member of a pet forum. A fellow member is a culinary student. She posted pictures of a few cakes that she has done. A couple are birthday cakes. The names on them are Xitlali and Kythzia. How do those sound? Xitlali doesn't seem too bad. :)

I was flipping through channels on the television. There was a woman named Beryl on one of the shows. Is this a creative version of something else?

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[littlehounddog.livejournal.com]

I would pronounce Xitlali "Zit-Lolly" and any name with "Zit" in it wouldn't bode well with me. Beryl isn't too bad though.

[unbakedbrownie.livejournal.com]

Xitlali, initially, didn't look so bad. The whole "zit" thing and lack of fluidity has me rethinking that idea. XD

[moldycelery.livejournal.com]

Beryl, if I remember correctly, is a sort of precious stone.

Kythzia sounds like a hand-full, since it's so hard to say the "th" sound and then the "z" sound right after it. Xitlali is equally bad...honestly, who wants a name begining with the sound "zit?"

[unbakedbrownie.livejournal.com]

Ahh! Then Beryl isn't *so* bad. I still wouldn't use it. It does make me glad that it's not a creative version of someone trying to call their kid "barrel".

I did a search on Xitlali. It's an Aztec name meaning "shining star", from what I've seen. Nothing really came up when I searched for Kythzia except as an alt for Cynthia.

[queensugar.livejournal.com]

Beryl is a very old name that evidently had some popularity in the late 19th / early 20th century. My great-grandfather was a Beryl; and my aunt (in her 70s now) married a Beryl. At that time, it was evidently fairly common.

[unbakedbrownie.livejournal.com]

Awesome. ^_^

[lipsty.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Beryl is a precious stone. Lots of women in their 60s to 90s in Britain are called Beryl, so maybe it's having a renaissance.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Beryl is a class of gems, to which emerald also belongs.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

I don't know why but Xitlali makes me wanna pronounce it Cheet-LAH-lee.
and the other one is Kitz-ya to me. Awful, awful names.

Beryl is cute, but to me it sounds too masculine to be feminine, and too feminine to be masculine

[regretfulsmile.livejournal.com]

I don't like any of them. I can't even pronounce them.

[yellowsummers.livejournal.com]

Beryl = a super cool window manager. And also, to me, an old lady's name.

And those other two will be spending their lives spelling their names out over the phone... they have an interesting look, but I can't type them out without scrolling back up the screen for the spelling, and that should be a sign.

[unbakedbrownie.livejournal.com]

Indeed, I feel bad for them!