Don't Have a Ginger baby or give your child a common name

killielila

midnightraven3 wrote: »

as i live from not far from glasgow, i can see why Macauley may be:o

think accents
Macauley
here, will be drawn out to maa-cawwwwwwwww-laaaayyy:(

also just down the road from glasgow when we were deciding on lil uns name we tried to find one that wouldnt sound too bad with thick accent and couldnt be shorted or was in a song .... too many years of lilly the pink sung at me ;-)

kingfisherblue

adouglasmhor wrote: »

I have only heard Precious as a man's name before.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precious_McKenzie

There was a girl in Grange Hill called Precious Matthews - now I'm showing my age :rotfl:

jellyhead

TopQuark wrote: »

I'm an 80s kid and was very nearly called Kylie until my Dad had a change of heart when they came to register me and I ended up with a 3-letter name starting with Z. These days I'm thankful of it, but back in the 80s/90s when I was a serious teeny-bobber Kylie Minogue fan, I was so upset to learn that I'd almost been named after my idol!

Choosing whether to associate (or not) with someone based purely on their name and never having met them, is absolutely idiotic. Surely people don't actually do this in the real world?

If/when OH and I have kids, we thought Lilou is nice for a girl (it's French and pronounced 'Lee-lou'). My concern though is that everyone on the English-speaking side (except for me) will pronounce it 'Lie-lou', which I don't like so much. We also like Flora as it works in both languages, but I was somewhat put-off when a friend said "what, like the margarine?" !!

Next door's cat is called Lilou. She's very elegant and aloof

jellyhead

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

She mooned about a lot and then killed herself when her future husband was also being feeble and uncommitted.

Not a 21st century role model, I fear.

My husband put Ophelia on our list of names, but it just made me think of drowning. He also added Roxanne, which makes me think of the song about prostitution.

We had a boy, so we didn't have to fight about girl's names. I wanted Tabitha but he said it was a cat's name. I also liked Annabel but he said 'like the doll on the TV advert?' Hmph!

jellyhead

adouglasmhor wrote: »

I have only heard Precious as a man's name before.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precious_McKenzie

And the little dog in 'Silence of The Lambs'

pigpen

jellyhead wrote: »

My husband put Ophelia on our list of names, but it just made me think of drowning. He also added Roxanne, which makes me think of the song about prostitution.

We had a boy, so we didn't have to fight about girl's names. I wanted Tabitha but he said it was a cat's name. I also liked Annabel but he said 'like the doll on the TV advert?' Hmph!

My niece is called Tabitha.. my sis is a fan of Bewitched! I do keep dropping hints sis should get herself a boy child and call him Felix!

jellyhead

FatVonD wrote: »

Had DS been born a few days later he'd probably have been called Rueben because I was swaying...

Would you have spelt it that way with the u before the e?

My Reuben is spelt with the e before the u, as in the bible, but also the sandwich, apparently There are two others in his school which I think is excessive in a school with only 200 or so boys, and their names are spelt differently to his.

Gaby Roslin had a Reuben the day before mine was born, so I think that affected the popularity of the name. There are loads of them in our town.

jellyhead

pigpen wrote: »

My friend has a Cordelia... from Buffy apparently.. I've never seen it.

I've no experience of the Shakespearean Ophelia I just love it.

There's a woman, probably around 60 years old, at the bingo my nan used to go to named Cordelia. Everyone shortens it to Cord, which makes you think of cord trousers. Hmmm ...

pigpen

jellyhead wrote: »

There's a woman, probably around 60 years old, at the bingo my nan used to go to named Cordelia. Everyone shortens it to Cord, which makes you think of cord trousers. Hmmm ...

She gets Cordy... but being a commoner friend pronounces it Cody... which I find really annoying and she's not even my child lol

FatVonD

jellyhead wrote: »

Would you have spelt it that way with the u before the e?

I'd have definitely had the extra vowel (and not spelt it Ruben) though not necessarily in the right order it seems :rotfl: