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Amarus

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By Wed 04-Nov-09 23:11:05 Add message | Report | Contact poster
I met a really sweet girl on the bus today with this teeny baby it it's pram. I got chatting to her and asked the little girls baby's name....Amarus.
She told me she had made it up herself as she wanted something unusual.
Why did no one tell her? She clearly had no idea of it's meaning.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 05-Nov-09 23:21:28
i know an Amaroo but he is a boy
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 05-Nov-09 23:19:17
She pronounced it Amorous............oh well maybe no one will notice
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 05-Nov-09 15:58:49
Amarus sounds like a name in Harry Potter!
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 05-Nov-09 14:55:20
It's Amaras though, not amorous.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 05-Nov-09 13:07:24
Grimma has made an excellent point - there are names already out there which can sound just as bad!
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 05-Nov-09 10:24:06
It does sound quite pretty, until you think of the possible consequences ... "Hi I'm Amarus" (sic) could get strange reactions. Like my American aquaintance who had to be gently told not to warmly approach English women with the greeting "Hi, I'm Randy"
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 05-Nov-09 10:16:44
Amorous - derived from the Latin 'amor' = love, so I think its a very sweet meaning, a bit like like Amabel (which also meams lovable). Yes, perhaps the -ous sounds a little masculine though. But I don't think it is bad.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 05-Nov-09 08:53:48
Couldn't a kinder interpretation (for a little girl) be 'full of love' or am I being naive here. Or if it's pronounced 'am-ah-rus' not quite the same (okay very near I'll shuddup).
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 05-Nov-09 08:52:19
The 'us' part makes it look very masculine.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Wed 04-Nov-09 23:59:57
biscuit

like the new emoticon!
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