Names and the grown up Chalet Girl
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#1: Names and the grown up Chalet Girl Author: LulieLocation: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 7:48 pm


I wonder if any of the Chalet girls who went by nicknames/shortened versions of their name ever changed their mind when they left school.

For example, I assume Tom Gay would use her proper name when filling out forms, in which case she'd have to get used to Official People calling her Lucinda, even if she introduced herself as Tom. And then there's people like Ted and Ricki. Did they go back to Theodora and Richenda, keeping the shortened forms just for friends? Another thing - what about the triplets? All three were Mary - middle name, so at least at first they would have been called Mary by those who had only seen their names on a list or a form, unless they changed the order round and put Mary as their middle name, but I can't see Joey liking that!.

Am I making sense? It was just a random thought that struck while I was trying to write drabble (and failing, I'm ashamed to add)

 


#2:  Author: LesleyLocation: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 4:23 am


I suppose the official forms would have to state their full name, but you introduce yourself to most people and so they'll then refer to you by whatever name you say!

*Thinking of a friend of mine called Anne Deborah - always known as Deb!*

 


#3:  Author: MissPrintLocation: Edinburgh PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 6:44 am


I use my middle name, and apart from my passport and driving licence, for every other "official" body I just use my middle name. Though my signature is my initials, just to confuse you. If anyone other than immediate family attempts to use my first name, they get snarled at. After a few snarls, they learn.

 


#4:  Author: JennieLocation: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 9:18 am


Same here, I always use a contraction of my middle name. I've never been known by my first name.

 


#5:  Author: LulaLocation: Midlands, UK PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 9:35 am


Oddly enough, I had a few teachers who seemed to assume I wanted to be called by my middle name (Joanna, thankfully they steered clear of the Cecelia part). After a bit of investigation, I discovered that the school had muddled up the registers, and I was actually down as being called Joanna Lucy.

I presume people like Ricki Fry would use their full names, due to the fact that some mistresses still called her Richenda, thus she obviously couldn't have minded it so much.

I never understood why they all HAD to have their names shorted in some way. Long names aren't too bad (coming from someone with a two-syllable name who always thought it was too short)

 


#6:  Author: RosieLocation: Huntingdonshire/Bangor PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 9:48 am


I've always been Rosalie (or Rosie!) which is my middle name. However, for official stuff I'm under my first name, so life does get very confusing at times. When people ask "Ah ----(first name censored), what would you like me to call you?" and I answer Rosie! As happened with every teacher from the beginning of year 7. Or when you introduce yourself as Rosie and realise your name badge states otherwise...

 


#7:  Author: KateLocation: Ireland PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 9:54 am


My brothers name is Edward Joseph but he's always called Joseph, because my parents didn't want people to use the (sometimes horrible) shorts of Edward. (Ed, Eddie, Ned, Neddy etc) I could never figure out why they just didn't call him Joseph Edward. But there you are.

My mum is also called by her middle name, but there's a funny story behind that. My granny was very ill when she was being christened and registered so my grandad took responsibility. Granny told him she wanted the baby to be called "Ellen Bernadette". Unfortunately, Grandad was deaf - he's one of the "Army Deaf" people, and lip-read. He mistook what she said for "Evelyn Bernadette". My granny threw a fit, because she disliked the name Evelyn, but it was too late at that stage! So Mum was always called Bernadette, or Bernie. Smile

 


#8:  Author: AllyLocation: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 10:17 am


My mum was called Jean because it was nice and simple and couldn't be shortened further, she also has no middle name. I don't think my Granddad liked fancy names!

 


#9:  Author: JennieLocation: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 10:26 am


My parents decided to call me Victoria Louise when I was born, but when my father went to register my birth, for some reason he decided to change it to Susan Jennifer. Uggh!

 


#10:  Author: DawnLocation: Leeds, West Yorks PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 10:46 am


Lula wrote:


Long names aren't too bad (coming from someone with a two-syllable name who always thought it was too short)


And I don't like having a name that can't really be shortened! Instead I get Dawni which is just urrrrrghhhhhh

 


#11:  Author: Rachael PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 10:51 am


*g*

I now have an image of Phil Tuffnell in my mind!!

 


#12:  Author: LulaLocation: Midlands, UK PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 11:11 am


Dawn wrote:
Lula wrote:


Long names aren't too bad (coming from someone with a two-syllable name who always thought it was too short)


And I don't like having a name that can't really be shortened! Instead I get Dawni which is just urrrrrghhhhhh


I used to get Lou, which wasn't too bad... I did draw the line when people started spelling it as "Loo" though, rather too much like being called toilet for my liking Laughing

 


#13:  Author: MissPrintLocation: Edinburgh PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 11:35 am


Jennie, you and I are burdened by the same first name. What were our parents thinking of?

 


#14:  Author: Carolyn PLocation: Lancaster, England PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 11:48 am


When we chose names for the children we deliberatly chose names and diminutatives of those names, mainly so that we got to choose the abbrevaited form. With my sons name especialy there are a few shorts, some of which I just do not like, so we chose the one we did and both children have grown up with both the full name and the shortened version in daily use.

 


#15:  Author: Rachael PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 12:56 pm


Wasn't sure from your posts which you didn't like but Victoria, Louise, Susan and Jennifer all seem like perfectly pleasant, "standard" names to me ... which you can short or not as you choose ...

Now if your respective parents had gone down the Peaches, Pixie, Fifi-Trixiebell, Fluffy-woo route .... then I would be worried!!

 


#16:  Author: JennieLocation: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 12:59 pm


It's the Susan Jennifer that I don't like. The Victoria Louise would have been far more appropriate as I am actually the image of my grandmother whose name was Louise.

 


#17:  Author: CharlotteLocation: Casterton, Kirkby Lonsdale PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 1:19 pm


you think You've got it bad,
I'm Judith Charlotte Dunlop
so I'm charlotte to everyone who wishes to retain their tongue!!!

 


#18:  Author: SusanLocation: Carlisle PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 1:33 pm


Must say I agree with Jennie on the Susan thing! (Wouldn't have minded Victoria Louise myself.)

My Mum and Dad hadn't exactly agreed on a name for me when I arrived, though I believe they had a shortlist. They weren't too happy with the family name thing as Mum, her mum and grandma all had the same Christian name which got very confusing, especially when Mum's mum lived with us as they sounded so alike and therefore was a problem to people who rang up and just asked for Mary!


My dad's mum died when he was 16 and he had a step-mum whom my parents did not get on with, and a couple of days after my arrival a neighbour of hers went to visit and congratulate her on 1st grandchild - and added 'Of course as she's a girl, they'll call her after you.' I won't say what it was in case I offend anyone though it is not a name in use by anyone on the board. When this was reported to Mum and Dad they looked at each other and blurted out the current name at the top of the shortlist. I berated them for years about couldn't they have picked something nicer but it got me nowhere.

I did try to improve matters in infant school by inventing a middle name for myself which got my poor Mum in trouble with the Head as they thought she hadn't given my full details when she entered me for the school.

 


#19:  Author: Kathy_SLocation: midwestern US PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 2:30 pm


*agrees with Rachael*

The only one of my sibs who uses her middle name goes by Susy as opposed to Mary ROFL. We also have a Judith (Judy normally), and Jennifer is an old family name that we'd probably have used if one of the cousins hadn't gotten it first....

 


#20:  Author: JennieLocation: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 3:03 pm


The unfortunate thing about my name is that there was a radio programme when I was a little girl, this is before the advent of television. One one particular evening, one character said to a child 'What's your name, little girl?' Came the reply, 'Jennifer'.

My family said that to me for years afterwards, it got so boring, and they didn't give up until I asked one of my uncles if he hadn't grown up yet, as he hadn't learned how to say anything new.

The problem was that everyone said it to me, and thought that they were being hilariously funny when they did so. There's nothing worse than an old joke.

 


#21:  Author: VikkiLocation: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 4:16 pm


People always think they're the first to come up with a joke about your name. (as I discovered when everyone thought it hilarious to call me 'Victoria Plum' Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes (and anyone who dares try it will get short shrift, I warn you all now!!!!!!!!) I once walked out of a biology lesson because someone thought it would be funny to call me that! - It was either leave or punch him!!!!!!!)

 


#22:  Author: Kathy_SLocation: midwestern US PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 4:48 pm


*doesn't get it at all, so will be especially certain not to try that one* Laughing

 


#23:  Author: BethLocation: Durham, apparently... PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 5:41 pm


My problem is that my name isn't short for anything - I really am just 'Beth'. I've lost count of the amount of times I've had arguments with people, desperately trying to persuade them that my real name isn't Elizabeth, or Bethan, or Bethany - and neither is it hyphenated with Louise, which is my middle name. I once had a supply teacher who announced that she didn't like shortened names, and spent the whole three days I had her calling me Elizabeth, and getting cross when (unsurprisingly) I didn't respond!

 


#24:  Author: VikkiLocation: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 6:00 pm


Beth, my friend Kate has had similar arguments with people who insisted that her name must be 'Katherine' , when it isn't, she's just 'Kate'.

 


#25:  Author: ChelseaLocation: Your Imagination PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 6:12 pm


Like Sue Mason in "Does it Again". Prunella tries to call her Susan and is informed that it is just plain Sue.

 


#26:  Author: DonnaLocation: Liverpool PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 6:21 pm


funnily enough, I know someone who's name is Carol Susan, but uses Susan (she was born on Christmas Day, hence the first name, which she hates!)

My mum had always wanted to call a girl Kerry, but the plan was scuppered when she married someone with the surname Kelly - good job she realised how ridiculous it could sound! Smile

 


#27:  Author: AngelLocation: London, England PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 6:53 pm


I get very upset if people don't call me Angel. The only people that call me anything else are a *very* select group of people that have known me more than 5 years.

 


#28:  Author: SugarplumLocation: second star to the right! PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 7:11 pm


I know a girl called Victoria who is called Plum by everyone and she really suits it. Personally I don't like my first name (why do u think I'm signed here as sugar!) but my middle name of Louise is so common and I couldn't imagine using it. When I arrived a lot earlier than expected I was just called Baby X and mum was more than relived I was a girl as dad was insistent he was going to call me Kevin !

 


#29:  Author: ChelseaLocation: Your Imagination PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 7:16 pm


I was the first female grand-daughter (after 11 boys) so they just assumed that I'd be a boy and my parents planned on naming me Christopher. They didn't like Christine for a girl so I was 'peanut' for a long while. That being what the doc called me in comparison to my huge brother.

 


#30:  Author: claireLocation: South Wales PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 7:27 pm


I agree about Louise being such a common middle name (another one over here) - so many in my class had the same middle name, I was determined that my children would have different names but what happens, since they've been born I've heard a few Alicia's in town and then we were in Woolworths the other week and heard soemone calling 'Katja' and it was someone completely different - argh (Kurt hates it when people call her Kat - mainly due to Eastenders - but most of the time she gets the full thing (or Katters from her sister)

 


#31:  Author: Guest PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 8:23 pm


Beth wrote:
My problem is that my name isn't short for anything - I really am just 'Beth'. I've lost count of the amount of times I've had arguments with people, desperately trying to persuade them that my real name isn't Elizabeth, or Bethan, or Bethany - and neither is it hyphenated with Louise, which is my middle name. I once had a supply teacher who announced that she didn't like shortened names, and spent the whole three days I had her calling me Elizabeth, and getting cross when (unsurprisingly) I didn't respond!


I've only recently discovered that my aunt Betty really is Betty and not, as I'd assumed, Elisabeth, and just to confuse matters more, her sister Mary really is Elizabeth.

 


#32:  Author: EllieLocation: Lincolnshire PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 8:24 pm


Um that was me - I didn't realise I wasn't logged in.

 


#33:  Author: jenniferLocation: Sunny California PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 8:40 pm


I like my name, on its own, but it was the most popular girls name in Canada/the US the year I was born, and for about a decade on either side. At one point, during elementary school, there were six Jennifers in a 30 person class! If I have kids, I'm determined not to call them anything in the top ten.

Personally, I like to call people what they want to be called, barring any linguistic impossibilities (Asian names, in particular, give me problems).

 


#34:  Author: fioLocation: swansea united kingdom PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 10:01 pm


Smile I was Lynne Fiona for the first 6 weeks & then they changed it round.
Some <a href="http://www.ntsearch.com/search.php?q=people&v=55">people</a> in work try calling me Fifi - to which I reply that I'm not a french poodle thank you!!! Fi I don't mind, but Fifi? Oh per-lease!!!!!!!! Shocked

 


#35:  Author: RebeccaLocation: Kendal/Oxford PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 10:22 pm


One of my friends had a grandad who had a name which was always shortened and he hated it so her dad got named Neil on the basis that it couldn't be shortened. He carried on the tradition with my friend and her two sisters by giving them names which also couldn't be abbreviated. Which was fine for Astri and Elva (though I suppose Elva could 'shorten' to Ellie) but it would be nice to shorten Iona at times (Yoh-na or Yoh-ni was as good as we got, or more randomly, Peggy).

 


#36:  Author: RuthLocation: Lincolnshire, England PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 7:37 am


My name is Ruth Eleanor but I always get called Ru or Harry. And I prefer my middle name to Ruth. I work with someone whose name is Ruth and it gets so confusing especially over the phone "Can I speak to Ruth, please?" "Yes, which Ruth is it you want?!"

 


#37:  Author: SusanLocation: Carlisle PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 9:40 am


Fio, my niece used to get Fifi from peole at her junior school but has now persuaded her friends to call to call her Fi.

 


#38:  Author: LulaLocation: Midlands, UK PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 10:05 am


My cousin's child Fiona gets called Fifi, but then again, she's only six months old. Her mother is determined that she'll be Fiona, with no shorts, by the time she's able to talk. I don't see it happening, myself...

 


#39:  Author: RachelLocation: Plotting in my lair PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 11:04 am


Jennifer wrote:
If I have kids, I'm determined not to call them anything in the top ten.


Trouble is, you don't always know what made it into the top ten until AFTER the event!

I called my daughter "Rebecca" based on the fact it is a lovely name and I hadn't heard it around very much at that time. What was the number one girls name for 1994? Yep, Rebecca!

I had many arguments with in-laws in particular who asked "when" would I be shortening her to "Becky". Never. If I wanted a daughter called Becky, I would have registered her as such!

My son also ended up with a very common name - but only while we lived in Scotland. He is called "Calum" (one L only please!) which, being Gaelic, always comes high up the list of popular boys names in Scotland. Living "darn sarf" now, his is one of the more un-common names!

 


#40:  Author: JennieLocation: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 11:55 am


My son and his wife called their child Euan, thinking that he would be the only one in the area. There are two other Euans at his nursery alone.

 


#41:  Author: shoe__galLocation: St Andrews, Scotland PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 11:57 am


Claire wrote:
I agree about Louise being such a common middle name (another one over here)


Snap - I'm another Claire Louise - I always wish my parents had been a bit more original in choosing names. I found a diary the other day which I'd written when I was about 10, and in it I said I'd wanted to be called Rosina (yuck!) - isn't that the name of Miss Annersley's car in one of the CS books?!

My sister had a problem with her name - it was the exact same, including surname, as another girl in her school. Unfortunately the other girl always got into trouble, and my mum was fed up of getting calls from the school complaining about her behaviour!

 


#42:  Author: CatrionaLocation: South Yorkshire PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 5:02 pm


My daughter's name is Eilidh (Gaelic for Helen) which we thought was quite unusual. However, it turned out to be the most popular name for 1990 (the year she was born) in the Lochaber district of Scotland - just as well we don't live in Fort William!!! (We haven't come across another one in Doncaster yet.....)

 


#43:  Author: pimLocation: St Andrews (right next to the beach) PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 5:31 pm


I object to my real name and never ever ever use my middle name which is on my birth certificate, passport and uni registration form under EXTREME duress.

On a side note, there were hundreds of Emma Louise's in my year at secondary school. Well not literally hundreds, but about 15 of them in a group of 150 (about 70 of us girls). Obviously Emma Louise was THE name in 1981 round my way *g*

 


#44:  Author: JackieJLocation: Kingston upon Hull PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 9:08 pm


I've just ended up with a name that no-one can spell. I was christened as Jaclyn, which people always want to shove a k into the middle, that or insist it must be Jacqueline, which is partly why I use Jackie (the other reason is because my sister tends to use my proper name when I've annoyed her, so I've come to dislike the sound it makes!). My middle name is Adele, which people can spell, but it's a little fancy for me.

It'll be fun when I marry though. Ben has a German surname which people have trouble spelling in this country. I forsee a life of spelling my name out to people.

JackieJ

 


#45:  Author: LadyGuinevereLocation: Leicester PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 9:43 pm


I think most people end up spelling their names! I do, and mine's really short. And I make people do it on the phone or I can't find them in the computer.

As for using middle names, it was habit in the older generations of my family.

On my mum's side, neither my grandma nor my great aunt used their first names. Grandma is Jacqueline Patricia and my great-aunt was something Iris. See.... I don't even know what it was! It might have been something like May.

On my dad's side, my Grandad never used his first name.... but then again he was Horace Claude, so I can't say I blame him! And my dad's sister was Jaqueline Wendy and went by Wendy.

Somehow, the name both sides of the family chose not to use was bestowed on my sister, though she makes Jacqui out of it (and still has to spell it all the time!)

I was Sarah Elizabeth (after both branches of the family - we named people after people as well!) and I know SOOOO many Sarah Elizabeths.

My boyfriend also has an unusual surname (though it's spelled how it sounds!) so if we get married I'll be spelling that for some time to come.

~LadyG

 


#46:  Author: LesleyLocation: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 6:04 am


There are some names that are just so appalling that they are not used! My grandfather's first and middlenames were Everard Adney!!!! He was known as Jack by work colleagues and Babe (he was the youngest) by family. Apparently his mother - my Great grandmother, was a little strange - a brother of his was called Newport!!

My mum said she used to dread having to fill in forms etc at school that asked for father's fullname!!!

 


#47:  Author: AngelLocation: London, England PostPosted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 10:44 am


Hypothetically (as I don't intend to have kids) I would probably call a daughter Clara Margaret - In the 1920s there was an aunt in the family called 'Auntie Sweet' because she was such a lovely girl, and it stuck till she died. Her real name was Clara, and I loved the names so much...

Then again one of my cousins was Montgomery Albert Plantagenet Foxteese.

And my grandpere was Sidney Oliver Stanley...

 


#48:  Author: CiorstaidhLocation: London PostPosted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 3:35 pm


Our family has rather a knack of using family names - rather common in Angus.

My nan was Hilda Kennedy, her younger sister is Willis Avon and her elder sister was Anna MacLaren. My Grandad was Alexander Allan (the Allan is a family name) and his brothers Charles Wilkie, and Albert Ramsay.

Dad is Allan Ramsay and his brother who didn't live long was Grahame Alexander - that's quite an unusual spelling of Grahame, thinking about it.

It's petering down, though - Mum refuse point blank to give me a surname as a middle name. Instead, she gave me the disgustingly stately Emily (sorry to any Emilys out there who like their name).

Although we mainly use first names - in fact, almost without fail. But most get shortened. Mum is "Neicey" (from Denise), then her sisters are Judy (Judith), Steph/Tet (Stephanie) and Pippa/Pip/Pipsqueak [family only!] (Philippa). H'mm.

 


#49:  Author: ChelseaLocation: Your Imagination PostPosted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 5:02 pm


In our family (mum's side) every first born daughter gets the middle name Maria or Marie (depending which one goes better with the first name, I guess), after one of my great-great-grandmothers (I think, not sure how many greats there should be). Though, all of us are known by our first names. Anyone else can have whatever middle name you want - though the sons (each family only has one) both have their dad's names as middle names.

 


#50:  Author: MissPrintLocation: Edinburgh PostPosted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 9:30 pm


angel wrote:

Then again one of my cousins was Montgomery Albert Plantagenet Foxteese.


What a fantastic name! I hope he was as flamboyant as the name suggests.

 


#51:  Author: AngelLocation: London, England PostPosted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 9:35 pm


*grins*

In our family either you're a non-entity or you make yourself stand out.

I went for the latter.

 


#52:  Author: JennieLocation: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 11:53 am


Re the Scottish family names: I had a friend at school whose mother was called, wait for it!

Nessie Young Cuthbert - what dreadful names to give anyone. She was known as Ginger.

 


#53:  Author: JennieLocation: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 11:54 am


Re the Scottish family names: I had a friend at school whose mother was called, wait for it!

Nessie Young Cuthbert - what dreadful names to give anyone. She was known as Ginger.

 


#54:  Author: Sarah_LLocation: Leeds PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 5:37 pm


LadyGuinevere wrote:

I was Sarah Elizabeth (after both branches of the family - we named people after people as well!) and I know SOOOO many Sarah Elizabeths.
~LadyG


I'm a Sarah Elizabeth. There were sometimes four Sarahs in my class at school, I knew about seven Sarahs at college, there was another Sarah doing law at Magdalen with me (out of four girls), and there's two Sarahs in the new starters group at Deloitte (out of about eight). Why couldn't I be a one-and-only for a change!

 


#55:  Author: LadyGuinevereLocation: Leicester PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 6:16 pm


Lol! I remember on guide camp one time, there were five of us in a tent, and three of us were called Sarah!

Strangely, there have rarely been many Sarahs in my year at school, yet plenty in other walks of life!

~LadyG

 


#56:  Author: KateLocation: Ireland PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 7:55 pm


I'm Catherine Marie - and I also wish for more original parents. There are three Catherines in my class in college, and there were four in my class in school. I'm usually Kate though, which I prefer. EVeryone has their own weird pronunciation of Catherine, which bugs me.

 


#57:  Author: Kathy_SLocation: midwestern US PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 8:17 pm


Likewise Katherine Marie. In Latin class, as I recall, the teacher took it upon himself to rename the K/Catherines Prima, Secunda and Tertia Confused .

 


#58:  Author: BethCLocation: Worcester, UK PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 10:08 pm


Sarah_L wrote:
LadyGuinevere wrote:

I was Sarah Elizabeth (after both branches of the family - we named people after people as well!) and I know SOOOO many Sarah Elizabeths.
~LadyG


I'm a Sarah Elizabeth. There were sometimes four Sarahs in my class at school, I knew about seven Sarahs at college, there was another Sarah doing law at Magdalen with me (out of four girls), and there's two Sarahs in the new starters group at Deloitte (out of about eight). Why couldn't I be a one-and-only for a change!

Out of the 30 girls in my class at high school, four were Sarah Elizabeth, I'm Sally Elizabeth and there were seven more with the middle name Elizabeth (and a Sarah Louise as well)... Mind you, the Queen's Silver Jubilee was the year most of us were born (1977), so maybe all the Elizabeths owed something to that!

 


#59:  Author: MissPrintLocation: Edinburgh PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 12:22 am


Kathy_S wrote:
Likewise Katherine Marie. In Latin class, as I recall, the teacher took it upon himself to rename the K/Catherines Prima, Secunda and Tertia Confused .


I know someone whose third daughter was named Tertia. I thought it was rather unimaginative, and felt rather like she'd got to daughter number three and was rather fed up not to have a son. Her next child was a son.

 


#60:  Author: VikkiLocation: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 2:14 am


There were two Sarah Louises in my year at primary school, and when I got to secondary school, out of the 40 girls in the year, six of them were Sarah.( and I think three of them had Jane as a middle name) It was a VERY popular name in the late 70s, early 80s!!

 


#61:  Author: DawnLocation: Leeds, West Yorks PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:17 am


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#62:  Author: LulieLocation: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 1:50 pm


There was an awful lot of girls in my year at school called Sarah Elizabeth/Sarah Louise/Elizabeth Jane (usually known as Jane)/Helen Elizabeth/Cla(i)r(e) Louise. I felt quite special being an Anna Louise! My Louise came about because it was a family name, I would have been a Louise if I'd been born in any decade. I did used to hate it, but I quite like it now, though I still don't like Anna - could have been worse, I was nearly Hannah which I think is worse! (apologies to any Hannahs out there)

 


#63:  Author: LulieLocation: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 1:54 pm


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#64:  Author: LulieLocation: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 1:54 pm


*refrains from swearing!* Sorry everybody!

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#65:  Author: JennieLocation: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 3:51 pm


In one class that I taught, I had six Sarahs and five Helens. That was out of thirty pupils. Oh joy!

 


#66:  Author: DawnLocation: Leeds, West Yorks PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 8:17 pm


JackieJ wrote:


It'll be fun when I marry though. Ben has a German surname which people have trouble spelling in this country. I forsee a life of spelling my name out to people.



When we got married, I kept my own name & then we both changed by deed poll when I was pregnant, from Smales (me) and Schonbeck (him) to Beck

I refused to be: (takes deep breath)
"Schonbeck I'll spell it for you yes his dad came over just befoe the war yes it used to have an umlaht but doesn't anymore"

 


#67:  Author: AnnLocation: Newcastle upon Tyne, England PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 9:47 pm


I'm Ann Elizabeth. As I'm the third Ann Elizabeth in the Newcastle library service at present and the third Ann(e) at the branch where I work, I'm thinking of changing it to something exotic (Malvina, anyone? Wink )

 


#68:  Author: KirstyLocation: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 3:03 am


*giggles at Dawn's reason (perfectly valid!) for changing the family name*

My correct name is Kirsten Leanne, but I've been Kirsty since the get-go. It's a result of a compromise between by parents when I was born - Dad wanted tp call me Kirsty as it's a Scottish name which is his background, but Mum wanted to call me something that sounded more "adult" for when I grew up. Unfortunately, as I always are introduced as "Kirsty", I can't ever see that happening.
Oh, and while I do answer to variations on my name (up to and including "Kylie" and "Tracey" Shocked ), I refuse to answer to "Christy". One of my fellow-workers refers to me to others as "Kirsty-actually", because that's what I say if someone calls me "Christy". ie. "It's Kirsty, actually".

 


#69:  Author: MissPrintLocation: Edinburgh PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 10:15 am


Kirsty-actually, kind of snazzy, I say you keep that!

I sympathise though, I get Aileen and Eileen for Irene, and I roll my rrrrrs at them and still they say Eileen. *growl* And I flippin' hate that song by Dexy's Midnight Runners "Come on Eileen", actually, I hated Dexy's full stop, but that song added insult to injury.

Surprisingly few people try and make me "Ireenee", instead of "Ireen", or at least, they don't do it twice. Twisted Evil

But, what annoys me is that you can never, or hardly ever get named pencils/whatevers with Irene on. I'm such a big kiddie. And every time my Dad comes here he leaves with pockets full of unconsidered trifles, it would be nice if they had a homing instinct. I'm sure he would think twice about hogging pens and pencils with my name on them.

 


#70:  Author: JackieJLocation: Kingston upon Hull PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 12:10 pm


Dawn wrote:
I refused to be: (takes deep breath)
"Schonbeck I'll spell it for you yes his dad came over just befoe the war yes it used to have an umlaht but doesn't anymore"


I'll just have the fun of

That's Pieper spelt p-i-e-p-e-r..... coupled with the j-a-c-l-y-n for my first name I'll be forever spelling something.

At least they spelt (and pronounced) it right when we went on holiday to Germany Very Happy

JackieJ

 


#71:  Author: DawnLocation: Leeds, West Yorks PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 12:35 pm


One of my friends went from an unusual surname to Smith when she got married & was really looking forward to never having to spell it and people always getting it right.

One of the first official letters she got was addressed to Mrs Smythe Wink

 


#72:  Author: JennieLocation: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 3:13 pm


Try having my surname, no-one can ever spell it, or pronounce it properly.

It's MacLeod, pronounced MacLoud.

 


#73:  Author: NicoleLocation: New Zealand PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 7:02 pm


*g*

When my sister got married she wanted to change her name. No-one asks how do you spell Armstrong, but no-one can spell Naylor right without asking. It's not that hard to spell.

Re first names. I'm Nicole. Not Nicki or any other variations that you can come up with. If my parents wanted me to be called Nicki they'd have named me Nicki. Most people when I first meet them will try and shorten it and are really good when I correct them.

Another thing that irritates me is when people call me Nicola. That happens a lot. I've gotten to the point where when I answer the phone at work I say my name Nee-cole putting more emphasis on the first syllable. Customers then think my name is Michelle. *sigh*

 


#74:  Author: RayLocation: Bristol, England PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 7:32 pm


Jennie wrote:
Try having my surname, no-one can ever spell it, or pronounce it properly.

It's MacLeod, pronounced MacLoud.


Find some Highlander fans to hang out with and then it will be...

Ray *I'm Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod and I cannot die*

 


#75:  Author: CiorstaidhLocation: London PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 11:37 am


Jennie wrote:
Try having my surname, no-one can ever spell it, or pronounce it properly.

It's MacLeod, pronounced MacLoud.


Having had first a Guide Lieutenant, then her sister as a Ranger Guider, with the name "MacLeod", I can pronounce it fine Very Happy

There was a friend of mine who got annoyed every time her name was pronounced - it's McKie (Mc-Kee), but everyone insisted on Mc-Kiy...no wonder she married fast (to a McDonald)

 


#76:  Author: JennieLocation: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 11:51 am


The MacKies are spelled MacKay.

 


#77:  Author: LadyGuinevereLocation: Leicester PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 3:12 pm


I've always been able to pronounce MacLeod. And some of the other names here as well. I still get mine pronounced wrong, and it's a boy's name, as well as a book in the Bible!

A friend of mine is called Elesabeth, and she has terrible trouble trying to get people to pronoucne it correctly. (No, it's not said like Elizabeth)

~LadyG

 


#78:  Author: KirstyLocation: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 4:11 pm


MissPrint wrote:
Kirsty-actually, kind of snazzy, I say you keep that!


I am rather fond of it! It's rather amusing to see the looks on people's faces when he calls me that. Especially if they don't know the history behind it.

LadyG, I'll bite (metterforically Wink ). How is Elesabeth pronouced if not like Elizabeth?



*and yes, I do know how to spell metaphorically, but I've been reading Terry Pratchett - Nanny Ogg is great for quotes!

 


#79:  Author: LadyGuinevereLocation: Leicester PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 5:34 pm


Quote:
LadyG, I'll bite (metterforically ). How is Elesabeth pronouced if not like Elizabeth?


Oh drat, I should have known someone would ask! (I generally call her Taff).

Erm, it's one of two and I can't remember which an she's on holiday. It's either

Elle-ee-sa-beth

or

Elle-ess-a-beth

I think it's the first.

~LadyG

 


#80:  Author: LissLocation: Harrow, London PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 10:50 am


Elizabeth has to be one of the most ridiculously popular middle names! My grandmother, mother and I all share it (though my mother is actually known as Elizabeth as she doesn't like Caroline). My first name is Laura, which practically every girl my age seems to have been called - there were always several in my year at school.

Fortunately, (in public) there's pretty much no way that Laura can be shortened, though one girl at school I came to dislike *very* much insisted on calling me 'Law', which I hated. At home and among friends however, I have been called Liss (obviously!), Laura-Loo (eurgh), Lulabelle, Lozenge (points for total randomness), Annie and Flossie (don't even ask), not to mention the fact that for some entirely inexplicable reason, my grandmother keeps calling me Rosemary (my aunt's name). I feel like a heroine from an EJO book!!!

And I think I have identity issues...

 


#81:  Author: LulieLocation: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 11:02 am


ROFL at Liss' identity issues. We all have those! I have loads of pet/nicknames. I'm known as Anna, Anna Louise, Lulie, Annabelle, Annabella Kajinski (because I look Russian, apparently), Anastasia, Pixie, Princess (obviously!), Pobbles (please, just don't ask!) and I join Liss in being a Lulabelle.

You think you have identity crises, Liss! Laughing

 


#82:  Author: catherineLocation: Newcastle upon Tyne PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 12:20 pm


I'm Catherine Anne Georgina - Georgina because I was born on my great-grandfather's birthday and he was called George.

Rarely anything but Catherine - though the people I used to work for insisted on shortening it to 'Cath' or 'Cat' - neither of which I mind too much - depending on who it is using them!!! I hate Cathy though and anyone who calls me that is liable to get snapped at.

There were a few unkind girls at school who went through a phase of calling me 'Georgie Porgie' when I was about ten!! And I was stick thin at the time!

 


#83:  Author: NellLocation: London, England PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 1:19 pm


I'm Catherine Margaret Susanna - nearly always Catherine except to an increasing number of people who call me Nell after my father's pet name for me derived so he insists from Cather-Nelly-Nora...no idea why, though he was very pleased to hear I'd chosen to be called Nell on here, as for identity crisis's I still have to remember I'm Nell when people use it in RL...also have been know as kitten, catkin, Cath, Squawk, Mr Cadbury's Parrot (a little long for everyday use), pootle, pin, thrin(ny)...

 


#84:  Author: LulieLocation: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 3:25 pm


You all have such elegant names. I'm impressed (or envious, I can't decide which). For some bizarre reason I always wanted a really long elegant name - about five or six middle names! I can't think why. It would probably be a pain in RL!

 


#85:  Author: Rachael PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 3:45 pm


Well, I'm just plain Rachael Jane and the shorts I get are Rach, Rachelle, Raquel etc - pretty obvious really ... Rolling Eyes
Alos Craigy from my maiden name though that tends to be confined to husband and uni friends ...

I quite like Rach but get arsy if people I don't know very well (or don't like!) try it on ..... Twisted Evil

 


#86:  Author: DonnaLocation: Liverpool PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 6:56 pm


*trying to reply to four pages worth of thread*

Luckily, Donna is both almost impossible to shorten, and fairly uncommon - there was only one other that I knew of at primary school, and maybe a couple at secondary school. Some people have tried to shorten it to Don - they get growled at, very loudly and sharply! I'm also lucky that I was only given one middle name (Marie), wth no family connection at all (given that my maternal grandmother was called Olive, this is something for which I am eternally grateful!) I did take my paternal gran's name (Catherine) at Confirmation though - although no-one ever called her Catherine - she was either Cath or Dolly.

We are not entirely devoid of family names though - my Dad's side of the family have a long string of men called Luigi George (I have no idea where the Luigi comes from!), and although my Gran refused to call her son luigi, he does have george as a second name, as does my brother. My brother has vowed that if he ever has a son, George will not form part of the name!

I often have to spell Kelly as well - it's got to be one of the most common surnames around, but people still manage to mis-spell it! and you wouldn't believe how many times people have tried the 'Donna Kebab' joke (or the number of people who mis-spell my name 'Donner')!

 


#87:  Author: KirstyLocation: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 7:14 pm


Donna wrote:
I often have to spell Kelly as well - it's got to be one of the most common surnames around, but people still manage to mis-spell it!


My surname is Young, and the amount of times I've been asked to spell that... Rolling Eyes

 


#88:  Author: LulieLocation: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 8:26 pm


Donna/Kirsty, you'd be surprised at how many people can't spell Walker. In fact there are people who can't even spell walk! (I usually tell people it's spelt 'walk with er on the end')

 


#89:  Author: ChelseaLocation: Your Imagination PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 8:28 pm


Embarassed raises hand and admits to having to ask many people to spell out there names. In my defence, I've been known to have trouble with words like 'the' and 'took' - and my own name. I have spelling issues!

 


#90:  Author: AllyLocation: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 8:34 pm


*Sometimes is thankful her sirname is Smith*

Ive not had it wrong yet *touches wood*

Donna - I have a friend with the same name and people were always spelling it Dona, it annoyed her greatly!!

 


#91:  Author: RachelLocation: Plotting in my lair PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 9:25 pm


I remember once having to make a list of fellow students names and one girl announced her name to be "Sarah Baxter". Baxter. Such a difficult name to spell obviously, that I ended up writing "Backster". It was definitely an off day!

 


#92:  Author: GemLocation: Saltash, Cornwall (holidays), Aberystwyth (termtime from September) PostPosted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:09 pm


My surname is Tombs - you would have thought that one would be easy to spell - you have NO idea how many people get it wrong! Evil or Very Mad Whenever I talk on the phone and give my surname, I just tell them that it's spelt like the gravestone - don't know why that embarasses everyone! As for middle names, my first middle name (I have two - Frances Carolyn) is after my grandFATHER. Gr. Granted, the Gemma - Carolyn isn't too bad, but I do object to being named after my grandfather!

And my sister got Catherine Sarah Louise...

How unfair is that??

 


#93:  Author: LauraLocation: London (ish) PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 8:24 am


Well I'm just plain old Laura-Jayne.

And Taylor isn't too tough to spell - although I was astonished the other day to recieve mail addressed to: Lady Lara Jaine Tailor. I was...er...rather impressed at their spelling! (and the lady bit. I've filed that letter away somewhere!)

 


#94:  Author: LesleyLocation: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 8:29 am


Almost immune to Lesley spelt Leslie. Refuse to answer to Les! Middle name Ann sometimes gets an extra 'e'. Even my surname is not easy for some - they insist on placing an extra 'e' on there too. I generally say "Green - like the colour!"

 


#95:  Author: patmacLocation: Yorkshire England PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 9:00 am


LOL at the lot of you! though with some sympathy!

I'm Pat (short for Patricia Wink ), no middle name. My parents hadn't found a girl's name they liked when I turned up so they adapted Patrick and called me Pat. (My dad wanted a boy anyway)

My surname was Butterworth so I got the incredibly tiresome joke of "What's a pat of butter worth?" from adults who thought they were being original.

Only my Headmistress called me Patricia when I was in deep trouble so I shiver in my shoes when anyone calls me that!

I go spare if anyone calls me Patsy - due to an association with a dire classmate known as Patsy! some people try to be clever and call me Trish but I won't have it.

My surname is now Machin (pronounced Maychin, please, not with a short 'a') not spelt Mackin, Machen or Machine,and, in French, the name means 'Whatsisname' which causes hilarity and confusion.

Some database programmes automatically put a capital H when they get past 'Mac' - which helps in recognising a lot of junk mail. Mac's full name is 'Mr MacHin' in recognition of this connection with the non-existant Scottish branch.

 


#96:  Author: ellendLocation: Bow, London PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 9:28 am


Another one trying to catch up with five pages of posts.

As a child I was always called by my middle name 'Elizabeth', but there was always confusion at dentists and other occasions when formal names on birth certificates were needed. Also I didn't particularly feel an 'Elizabeth' or 'Liz', which I tried for several years, so from my mid-teens I tried to be 'Ellen'. It didn't work in the Sixth Form, as too many people knew me as Elizabeth. What confirmed my desire to be Ellen was my history 'A' level class. There was about 15 of us, and we were know as Big Liz, Little Liz and Duffy. I was the last. The 'big' and 'little' refered to the other girls' height as one was 5ft 6 and the other like me 5ft nothing.

The only problem with Ellen is that a lot of people call me 'Helen' but I've also had Eileen (with my irish surname, not surprising), Elaine, and Allan on at least two occasions. One Greek colleague to enable others to distinguish between a colleague called Alan, would call me Eleni, which I liked.

When she was 12 or so my grandmother was asked to suggest names for her youngest sister and came up with Vera Elizabeth Ruth, and since their surname began with 'A', her initials would spell her first name. Rather clever, unfortunately said great-aunt married a man whose surname began with a 'C'.

Elizabeth was very common as a middle name in my school in one form with 10 girls (there were also 10 boys) 8 girls had Elizabeth as a middle name including myself. At school there were two girls I felt sorry for, one was called Susan Mary Brown, which I thought was very unimaginative. The other, born in 1960, was named Penelope Lane, usually known as Penny Lane. She was very fed up with Beatles songs, but it wasn't her parents' fault, as the song wasn't written when she was born.

E

 


#97:  Author: TrishLocation: Australia PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 1:03 pm


I'm another Patricia, but I go by Trish not Pat. No one calls me Pat, well, not if they don't want their head bitten off. As for anyone calling me Patsy or Patty? I assume they have a death wish and I am most happy to oblige. Twisted Evil

I don't object to being called Patricia but no one does nowdays anyway. Except my sister, though even my parents call me Trish now. Up until I was 14 I refused to answer to anything but Patricia, but then we moved, everyone started calling me Trish and I gave up trying to correct them.

My middle name is Ellen, after my maternal grandmother. I HATED it as a kid and wanted Marie, Louise or Anne like everyone else. Now I wouldn't swap it for anything. Much prefer being Patricia Ellen than Janet Dorothy like my sister!

My last name is simple - or so you'd think. Not that common but quite English and just 5 letters. But no, I have to spell it for everyone! In fact I automatically do now. I suppose there could be an extra l or an e in there somewhere but really!

Oh and I don't know and never have known a single Elizabeth!

 


#98:  Author: Catherine_BLocation: Oxford, UK PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 1:23 pm


*giggles at all the funny name stories!*

Catherine fortuately isn't too bad, although it does tend to become "Catherine-with-a-C" or if the listener looks particularly doubtful, "Catherine-with-a-C-then-E-R-I-N-E-yes-just-the-plain-version!" On one memorable ocassion somebody wrote me down as "Catherine Willesey" (from "Catherine-with-a-C") which I couldn't be bothered to correct Laughing

My surname is easy in the UK but in the States people could never understand my accent and I was once asked whether I'd said "Bible" - !!? After two years I ended up rolling my Rs like a maniac which caused much mirth when I came home and my friends heard me say "Barber - that's b-a-RRRRRR-b-e-RRRRR" like a demented pirate!

Also had problems with my surname in Russia - eventually got round that by using my mother's maiden name - it was a great relief to be able to be Ekaterina Mironova!

 


#99:  Author: Jay PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 2:31 pm


Most impressed with "Ekaterina Mironova", Catherine!

I'm not sure what my folks were thinking when they named me. Maybe they got tired of correcting the spelling of my siblings' names as they're Stephen (specifically with a -ph and not a -v) and Lynda (which no one can spell correctly!). I got Julie Marie (as in von Eschenau Wink) Though the minister still managed to get it wrong & baptised me as Julie Mary...! Rolling Eyes And more than one person has spelt it as July!

I was very nearly an Ann-Marie though as Princess Anne got married the year I was born, which has me really cringing due to bad connitations of someone I used to know years ago. Strangely though, Julie was much more common around that time than Ann(e) or Ann-Marie! There was even a Julie with the same surname as me in the year above, which one of my friends knew, which caused some confusion! Maybe I got off lightly though - my sister got Marjory as middle name, after my Granny and I could have been Jemima after the other one! Shocked

I don't get many shortened versions of my name, just Jules really. There's a lot of people think it's Julia though. Occasionally J which I've lengthened to Jay. Though my family used to call me Jube-Jube after the sweeties!

If I have kids, I'd like one of them to have my Mother's maiden name (not mine as my sister did that with one of hers) as a middle name. I quite like the Scottish custom of having surnames as middle names. But only if they're easy identifiable as surnames - one of my female friends used to get teased rotten at school for having Ewen (generally considered a boys name) as her middle name!

 


#100:  Author: Sarah_KLocation: St Albans/Leicester PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 2:42 pm


My name's not too bad in spelling terms, though I do tend to see red when people write Sara as I think of the as a completely different name.

What's more funny is the problems my initials cause. I'm Sarah Alice Mary and the number of times people look at a form I've filled in and decide I'm called Sam amazes me Very Happy Not that I mind hugely it's just not my name.

 


#101:  Author: EmmaLocation: Lichfield PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 3:50 pm


My first name is fine for people to spell I mean you can't go that wrong with 'Emma'!! I have never really had it shortened apart from the odd person calling me 'Em' My surname causes no end of problems 'Neachell' I have had that many different versions Ive given up with correcting people!!

 


#102:  Author: VikkiLocation: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 5:04 pm


I have terrible problems with both my names.
The random spellings of Vikki I get are incredible, just when I think I've seen every possible combination of letters, someone comes up with a new one!!!!
And as for my surname!!! Most people try and make it KirkHAM, which really annoys me! and when you say 'that's Kirkum, with u-m at the end,' they try and make it KirkHUM, and can't accept that there is no H!!!!

 


#103:  Author: LauraLocation: London (ish) PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 6:42 pm


There's a girl at school called something like Howard Sarah Something (Howard was an example, it's very definately a boys name!) for some very long and complicated reason... however she is at present very unamused as the school and 6th form have just found out and the Head of 6th form has taken to addressing her mail to Howard!

 


#104:  Author: Kathy_SLocation: midwestern US PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 6:08 am


Usually the first name isn't a big problem after the Kathy-with-a-K routine, but the surname is another thing entirely. I don't worry about the more bizarre student efforts (Squid, etc.), but become irritated when people to whom I've carefully spelled S-C-H-M-I-D insist that I'm wrong and add a T at the end. No, there is no T; no, we didn't change the spelling in America. I even had to demand the university make me a new diploma -- how they managed to put Schmidt on that after years of bills with the correct spelling remains a mystery.

 


#105:  Author: AlexLocation: Manchester PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 7:11 pm


Well I still get a lot of post addressed to Mr Falmer - my voting card even came as that one year, despite the fact that I'm Miss Farmer. I always use Miss over Ms because Ms can look too much like Mr adn when you're called Alex it's as well to leave no room for doubt.

My (welsh) grandfather was named Francois Samuel as his mother thought it would sound good if he was knighted (??)!

A friend of mine swears she was at school with a boy named Wayne Kerr.

 


#106:  Author: PatLocation: Doncaster PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 7:16 pm


One of my kids was at school with a boy saddled with the name of William Shakespeare. I have no idea what his paretns were thinking about to saddle him with that.

 


#107:  Author: VikkiLocation: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 7:25 pm


I have a friend who had a friend whose dad was called Richard Head! (and yes, they did call him Dick for short!!!!!! Shocked Shocked )

 


#108:  Author: LulieLocation: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 7:58 pm


Laughing Laughing at Vikki's friend's friend's dad!

My Mum lived in the same village as a Donald Duck (but he was about 90 when she was a wee podling, so obviously pre-Warner Bros. days)

There was a girl at our college called Mhairi-Donna Duck (pronounced Maradona - like the footballer) which we thought the most unfortunate name!

Also one of my friends had schoolteachers called Tom Jones and Michael Jackson!!!

 


#109:  Author: RachelLocation: Plotting in my lair PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 8:01 pm


(I'm sure we've done this before but never mind Wink )

I know a Carol Marks (say it aloud) and an Olive Groves.

 


#110:  Author: JackieJLocation: Kingston upon Hull PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 8:10 pm


Not quite names, but at school we had a Clare Hopper (known as Chopper), and a Ben Lister (known as Blister), plus my friend's mum's first name was Hazel, we always used to giggle about what would have happened had she married a Mr Nut. Speaking of which, I hope that Gwyneth Paltrow's baby doesn't become Mrs Mackintosh in the future Wink

JackieJ

 


#111:  Author: LesleyLocation: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 8:21 pm


One of my friends when nurse training was one of three sisters. Her surname was Fitt - and she'd heard all the jokes about being misfits!!!

 


#112:  Author: JennieLocation: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 8:23 pm


I had a girl in my tutor group called Julie Duck.I also taught a boy caled Paul Ingle, of course, he soon rejoiced in the name of Pingle.

 


#113:  Author: KellyLocation: Auckland, New Zealand PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 9:36 pm


People always spell my name wrong, its been spelt 'Kelly', "Kellie", "Kelley", "Kelle", "Callie" and a couple of other variations that I can't even remember becuase they were so impossible!
People always ask me to spell my last name too - I mean 'Thomas' isn't that hard surely?

I don't tend to get called anything but my own name, except close family sometimes call me 'kel' which my Mum hates, and for some reason my grandad tends to call me Lynn, I don't know why. But everyone says I'm like my Aunty (whose name is Lynn so perhaps thats why?)

I had a teacher who called my Kylie for a whole year. I refused to answer, because when I did other people started calling me that as well, thinking that it really was my name. It goes without saying that they soon got the message!

The person I do feel sorry for is my Mum. Her name is Brianne (pronouned Bri (not bree) - anne) most people call her Bree-anne, no matter how often she tells them, and at the doctors they persist in writing her name down as Brianna! She's been called Brian too. Sometims people really make me wonder . . . (how many times must they be told!!)

 


#114:  Author: RosieLocation: Huntingdonshire/Bangor PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 11:40 pm


Laura wrote:
There's a girl at school called something like Howard Sarah Something (Howard was an example, it's very definately a boys name!) for some very long and complicated reason... however she is at present very unamused as the school and 6th form have just found out and the Head of 6th form has taken to addressing her mail to Howard!


*giggles*
Last year we had to vote for the head boy and girl and their deputies, and when the list came round we discovered that 'Ashley' (male) was on the list of girls... Needless to say, nearly everyone promptly voted for him to be head girl but sadly the powers that be decided against it. Shame really as I bet he had the most votes!!

 


#115:  Author: AnnLocation: Newcastle upon Tyne, England PostPosted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 2:07 pm


I once met someone with the very unfortunate name of Dickon Head (yes, really). What were his parents thinking?

 


#116:  Author: LauraLocation: London (ish) PostPosted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 5:18 pm


The boys school has a Richard Fiddler... poor him!

 


#117:  Author: EmmaLocation: Lichfield PostPosted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 5:53 pm


*lol* Dad always says he was going to name me Nellie Neachell after some great great grandmother somewhere in the family tree, Im pleased Mum didnt let him!!!

 


#118:  Author: Cumbrian RachelLocation: near High Wycombe PostPosted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 5:59 pm


There's a cyclist called Robbie McEwan who's called his son Ewan.... I wonder what he was thinking at the time!

 


#119:  Author: LauraLocation: London (ish) PostPosted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 6:03 pm


I used to live next door to a Roger Rogers! I always felt that the parents were very cruel!

Very off-topic... the children over the road from me are called Benedict, Ariane and Jonah. I really feel for Benedict and Jonah!

My mum, after hearing the name of Jonah, said: "Oh, talking of which, we're going to wales next weekend.." His mother was bemused and said: "What's the connection?" I dont think mum had the heart to tell her!

 


#120:  Author: LulieLocation: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 7:54 pm


Ann wrote:
I once met someone with the very unfortunate name of Dickon Head (yes, really). What were his parents thinking?


Even more unfortunate. I used to work with somebody who had a brother called Dickon Harding. I jest not!

ETA: The person I worked with was called nice and normal Luke. Parents! Rolling Eyes

 


#121:  Author: KatarzynaLocation: Preston, Lancashire PostPosted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 8:41 pm


i had a client by the name of Willy Tingle.............sadly it wasn't even William that was what he was christened.

 


#122:  Author: Rachael PostPosted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:17 am


And did he? .................................................... Wink

 


#123:  Author: GemLocation: Saltash, Cornwall (holidays), Aberystwyth (termtime from September) PostPosted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 6:10 pm


I wonder if he ever spoke to his parents again after he realised the implications of his name?

*suddenly very grateful for Gemma Frances Carolyn...*

 


#124:  Author: Carolyn PLocation: Lancaster, England PostPosted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 10:51 pm


Oh Gem, you share my name. There are so few carolyn's as opposed to carolines that I have met.

 


#125:  Author: BethCLocation: Worcester, UK PostPosted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 12:17 am


My mum's a Carolyn, although most of her acquaintances (including people who've known her for many years and seen her name written down lots of times) can't seem to grasp that she's not a Caroline.
I did briefly teach a child called Carolynne, too.

More names I've come across: Kimberley Kimber (whose mum objected violently to her being referred to as "Kim"); Elizabeth Hurley (not really her parents' fault, as she was named before the famous one became well-known, but must've been awkward a few years ago!); Ann Kerr (cue boat jokes from at least half our teachers...)
Of course there's the cricket statistician on Test Match Special, Jo King.

 


#126:  Author: Dreaming MarianneLocation: Devon PostPosted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 8:40 am


I would've hated Joey with a passion as regards her delight for shortening names. I have a four syllable name, and some people are just determined to shorten it (they get stamped on very quickly!) Anyway, why did Joey decide that she was Queen of Names and could shorten/change at any whim?

*low rumbled growl....*

 


#127:  Author: Rachael PostPosted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 9:43 am


You'd best tell us how to pronounce it then because I'm sure I would only use 3 syllables! Embarassed

 


#128:  Author: NinaLocation: Peterborough, UK PostPosted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 11:20 am


My cousin and his wife have just named their baby Jasmine May. When I told my niece, her instant reaction was "or Jasmine may not ..." Laughing My first thought was Miss A Very Happy

 


#129:  Author: GemLocation: Saltash, Cornwall (holidays), Aberystwyth (termtime from September) PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 1:29 pm


Carolyn P wrote:
Oh Gem, you share my name. There are so few carolyn's as opposed to carolines that I have met.


Ditto! My mother's middle name is Caroline, but for some reason they decided Frances Caroline sounded weird and changed it *rolls eyes* I like it though, it's unusual. Gemma I HATE (and I can say that here as there are no other Gemmas on the board to my knowledge!) and Frances doesn't really suit me.

 


#130:  Author: LadyGuinevereLocation: Leicester PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 4:30 pm


While re-ordering the deceased files at work today, I found someone by the name of Clint Eastwood. He was born in 1923 though, so couldn't have been named after the famous one really.

~LadyG

 


#131:  Author: StephLocation: Blackpool, Lancashire PostPosted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 4:16 pm


My family is another one that recycles names. There are two Christines, two Pauls, two Josephs, two Dorothys and two Stephanies in my family. My father and brother's middle name is my grandmother's maiden name and I share my middle name with my mother. My youngest brother is named after his two grandfathers, so he is Patrick Gordon. He is the only Patrick in his high school and that we know of outside the family, but there are three in my family- him, my uncle and my grandfather. Shocked

I also get various spellings with my name. It is spelt Stephanie but I also get Stefanie, Stephannie and Stephany. I prefer being called Steph, but also get called my full name, Stephie or even Stephaninnie by someone I used to work with. That didn't go down well Evil or Very Mad

 


#132:  Author: gigagalLocation: London PostPosted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 6:37 pm


I can safely say no one has ever tried to spell my name and got it right first time. 10 syllables, 23 letters, i have no idea what my parents were on. Razz But I'm lucky my name can be shortened to Dushi or Dush. My brothers names almost as long as mine but theres no way to shorten it.

 


#133:  Author: VikkiLocation: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 9:51 pm


So, what IS your full name then????

 


#134:  Author: JennieLocation: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 3:09 pm


Vikki, has anyone ever mentioned your name and the words 'elephant's child' in the same sentence?

If it's got that many letters in it, I know I'm never going to be able to pronounce it.

 


#135:  Author: gigagalLocation: London PostPosted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 6:53 pm


Vikki wrote:
So, what IS your full name then????


*g* Dushiyanthi Arumuganesan.

Guess I'm just glad I don't have a middle name. Razz

 


#136:  Author: LulieLocation: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 7:05 pm


gigagal wrote:
*g* Dushiyanthi Arumuganesan.


Crumbs! How long did it take you to learn to spell that?

 


#137:  Author: gigagalLocation: London PostPosted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 7:15 pm


Quite a while. The worst bit is in an exam, when the examiner tells us to write our names, and thent ells us to start when i haven't finished writing my name yet!

 


#138:  Author: RoseaLocation: Edinburgh PostPosted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 8:27 pm


lol!

I bet you get sick of spelling out to people though. I have enough trouble with Rosenberg.

 


#139:  Author: karryLocation: Stoke on Trent PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 7:31 pm


My father in law has some wierd names in his family - he is relatively ok as Reginald (considering the EDB implications of this) Clifford Poole! His brothers are 1) Walter Emannuel Marmaduke Poole, and 2) Stanley Baldwin Poole. My sister in law has continued the tradtion in naming her sons Alan William Clifford Wallace, and Jack Stanley Edgar Wallace! I played safe with my kids and clled No 1 Ruth (with was lengthened to Ruthie) Naomi, and Nathanael ( usually called Nat) Philip!

 


#140:  Author: RosieLocation: Huntingdonshire/Bangor PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 7:46 pm


gigagal wrote:
Quite a while. The worst bit is in an exam, when the examiner tells us to write our names, and thent ells us to start when i haven't finished writing my name yet!


*giggles* Ever thought of asking for extra time??
I have been known to spell my first name wrong on exam papers, as I never use it other than then! Frankly, I am amazed that I even passed GCSE English after I wrote my name incorrectly TWICE on the front of the final paper!

 


#141:  Author: VikkiLocation: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 10:49 pm


karry wrote:
I played safe with my kids and clled No 1 Ruth (with was lengthened to Ruthie) Naomi, and Nathanael ( usually called Nat) Philip!


I have a friend whose daughter is called Naomi Ruth. (sure you really wanted to know that! Wink But Naomi is quite an unusual name, and you don't get Ruth that often these days, and it struck me as unusual to find the two names used together twice. *not entirely sure that sentence makes any sense whatsoever, but oh well!*)

 


#142:  Author: Dreaming MarianneLocation: Devon PostPosted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 9:38 am


Names for the (small) bump have been flickering around my family in the last couple of weeks.....feel free to laugh and point!

Antigone
Loveday
Hero
Arianwen

SLC has nixed every one.....

Am very open to suggestions!

 


#143:  Author: EllieLocation: Lincolnshire PostPosted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 3:21 pm


Well, I don't dislike Loveday (for a girl, obviously) but I can't help thinking that it's rather asking for trouble to name a child Hero - quite a burden trying to live up to that one.
When I was a little I always swore that I would call a daughter Tabitha Sulwyn. I guess it's a good thing I never had a daughter.
Seriously, my favouritist boys name is Oliver, but there are so many lovely names for girls I can never decide on a favourite.

 


#144:  Author: JennieLocation: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:01 pm


Please, just avoid Chelsea and Jordan - there are so many of them in the doctor's waiting room, it seems as though some parent or other is calling ou,'Don't do that, Chelsea.' and half the kids in the play area start looking round guiltily.

 


#145:  Author: ChelseaLocation: Your Imagination PostPosted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:02 pm


Jennie wrote:
Please, just avoid Chelsea and Jordan - there are so many of them in the doctor's waiting room, it seems as though some parent or other is calling ou,'Don't do that, Chelsea.' and half the kids in the play area start looking round guiltily.


Which is a very new phenomen, since growing up I was the only Chelsea I knew (or had heard of).

 


#146:  Author: JennieLocation: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:07 pm


I wish parents would think about the future. Just imagine, a newspaper reports that a Mrs Kaylee Smith has just celebrated her ninetieth birthday. My own preference is for traditional names as they don't really date.

 


#147:  Author: LauraLocation: London (ish) PostPosted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 5:09 pm


Ismene! Whilst doing classics GCSE i decided I wanted twins (to be called Antigone and Ismene). I just love the names. I think it comes from having a name as boring as Laura!

At work today I was going through documents and spotted a Mr Peepee (poor man) and Mr Clarence Beep. I mean... he sounds like a clown! You just couldnt take it seriously!

 


#148:  Author: gigagalLocation: London PostPosted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 7:38 pm


I think my favourite name for a boy would be something like Damien, and for a girl I quite like Philippa but only as a middle name. I also really like Ella after reading Ella Enchanted.

 


#149:  Author: claireLocation: South Wales PostPosted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 7:39 pm


What sort of names do you like? Traditional, wierd, pretty? There can be a baby naming party for you on here (I know I ignored all your suggestions when having Conan but it was still nice to hear all the different choices)
PS Girls names - my two are Alicia and Katja and if Conan was a boy he would have been Natalya or Talya (When are you due anyway? Natalya/Natalie is a Christmassy name if it's December/January time)

 


#150:  Author: MissPrintLocation: Edinburgh PostPosted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 9:47 pm


Oooh, naming party! Wheeee!

Let us know what kind of names you like and I'm sure we'll come up with dozens. Which will all sound fine until some TV show or pop star nicks tham and makes them naff beyond bearing.

I am really glad that when I looked at my darling, but plain, little baby I decided that she didn't have the face of a Hermione, Monica or Pheobe and settled for Helen instead. Since Harry Potter and Friends have taken all my other favourites, I'm quite glad I did. And so is she.

 


#151:  Author: Lisa A.Location: North Yorkshire PostPosted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 9:50 pm


I it seems harder to choose boys' names somehow. I think Titus is brilliant but family have made me promise that, should I have children, I will never, never choose this. As a Catholic, Hubby is interested in saints' names and I quite like the rugged northern English ones like Bede or Oswy, but can't decide whether this is tough and original or whether hypothetical child would get teased to death. My sister has just called her new boy Harrison, which I'm not too sure about - I'm not keen on surnames-as-first names as a rule. I really don't like Lisa much - everyone in my year at school was called that, although my Mum says it was exotic and unusual back in the summer of '69!

 


#152:  Author: Sarah_KLocation: St Albans/Leicester PostPosted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 10:54 pm


I love naming parties Very Happy

I always thought I'd like to name my first daughter Keziah or possibly Jemimah. (Both of whom were Job's daughters from the end of the Book of Job). Natalya is a beautiful name too, or Natalie. Of my friends' names I always liked Jessica, Eleanor and Ferelith.

 


#153:  Author: DawnLocation: Leeds, West Yorks PostPosted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 11:30 pm


I do know twin grils who are called Hero and Octavia - admittedly Octavia often gets Tavy, but then you can't really shorten Hero

We thought Jessica was quite unusual back in 88, only it turned out it wasn't. So we played safe with the boys and went for Christopher and Mathew. We always used the full names, but Chris decided he was Chris. Matthew heard a song called Matty Groves and decided he was now Matty (both changes happening around age 5ish?). Mind you Jessica went through a phase of calling herself Jessica Fish when she was 2 and wouldn't answer to anything else!

You can always give them an unusual middle name and then they can use it if they want to - the only Loveday I know started to use it instead of her boring first name in her teens.

 


#154:  Author: KirstyLocation: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:20 am


Ooh, a names party! I love names - I've been collecting them for years.

My favourites (today anyway)

Emily
Anne
Elinor
Norah

Michael
James
Daniel
Thomas

of the "plain-Jane" variety.


Others that I love, but probably wouldn't call my hypothetical children as a first name

Sebastian
Charlotte
Rowan (either boy or girl)


What type of names are you looking for? Are there any family names you are obliged to add?
Don't do what a friend of mine did when she and her parnter couldn't decide on a name for their new daughter (with a surname of "Slagg", nothing goes nicely with it!). They got the birth notices out of the weekend paper, cut out all the girls names, put them in a hat & drew two out. The poor kiddie has been lumbered with Jarmilla Meredith! Shocked At least this way they got out of the "you named her after one side of the family and not the other" as everyone is united in hating it. She's already been shortened to Millie - which is slightly better.

 


#155:  Author: KateLocation: Ireland PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:50 am


NAMING PARTY!!!! I love names too. Smile

Lily
Lauren/Laurie
Alison
Anna
Isabelle
Charlotte
Stephanie
I also like Elisabeth, Jessica and Rebecca, but don't like Lizzy (Liz), Jessi or Becky, so they're out!

Christian/Christopher
Dylan
Robin/Robbie
Adam
I need to find more boys names...

WHat my aunt and uncle did when they were choosing names, was write their favourites down in a list... then they chose the name that appeared first on both the lists. I think that's quite clever.

 


#156:  Author: Dreaming MarianneLocation: Devon PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 12:41 pm


Thanks for your ideas everyone! Yes, I would definitely welcome a naming party!

Bump will have Gillian Mary or Matthew as a middle name.
I like Old Testament names, specially for boys; esp names like Judah, also Israeli names like Yonatan. Also names of Cornish/Welsh origin. Lisa A, I really like old English names too!

I like the twin girls names of Hero and Octavia very much!

As always, suggestions very welcome!

 


#157:  Author: Lulie as guest PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:23 pm


Another naming freak here!

If you like Welsh or Cornish names, I have a cousin Piran, which is the Cornish form of Kieran (and also a saint). The Yorkshire village my Mum grew up in seemed to be one of those where Old Testament names were common amongst the old men. I believe there was a Seth, Reuben, Amos, Samuel and Micah. Then of course you could always go with Zachariah, Jedidiah, Shadrach, Abdenego, Absolom, Cain. *removes tongue from cheek*. I think Judah is the nicest of that lot!!!

I always wanted to name my (hypothetical) children after characters from Greek Myth or Shakespeare. I suppose it's lucky for them that I don't have any children, though I do have a teddy called Aphrodite, a (toy) bush baby called Desdemona and another called Demitrius, oh and the cats are Phoebe and Calypso!

 


#158:  Author: AllyLocation: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:48 pm


I love Greek girls names as well, though some of them are just a bit too hard for small children. Iphigenia, Clytaemnestra, Penthesilia etc..

I'm a little affected by the CS as I really like Constance and Viola. I also like Emilia and Isabella.

Boys names are so much harder, but I like Joseph and Thomas.

 


#159:  Author: Sarah_LLocation: Leeds PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:40 pm


claire wrote:
if Conan was a boy he would have been Natalya or Talya


Since when has Natalya been a boy's name? Wink
Seriously, I'm surprised no one has suggested Josephine. I thought everyone had to name their child after Joey!

 


#160:  Author: ChelseaLocation: Your Imagination PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:41 pm


Sarah_L wrote:
claire wrote:
if Conan was a boy he would have been Natalya or Talya


Since when has Natalya been a boy's name? Wink


I was busy wondering what exactly Conan is Shocked Laughing

 


#161:  Author: claireLocation: South Wales PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:42 pm


Joey had enough CS babies named after her - can't have her getting too egotistical can we?

And with Conan you know what I meant

 


#162:  Author: LauraLocation: London (ish) PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:55 pm


I also loved Esme, until a girl in my old school was referred to as Sme.

Today I was dealing with the correspondance of Professor Pat Plum. Its just ridiculous!

 


#163:  Author: Rachael PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 4:11 pm


I'm not big on Josephine but I do like Josie ... as in Josie Lawrence rather than Josie Pye!!

 


#164:  Author: JennieLocation: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 4:16 pm


Don't forget that Joey said that she refused to have any more children named after her. Cheeky mare, who was she to tell the parents what they could or could not name their children?

 


#165:  Author: StephLocation: Blackpool, Lancashire PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:57 pm


For some reason, I can think of loads of boys names that I like but only a couple of girls names for my hypothetical child

Jacob (my favouritest name in the whole world)
Joseph
Benjamin
Oliver
Luke
Michael


Ella Rose
Millie

 


#166:  Author: JackieJLocation: Kingston upon Hull PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 7:33 pm


Laura wrote:
I also loved Esme, until a girl in my old school was referred to as Sme.

Today I was dealing with the correspondance of Professor Pat Plum. Its just ridiculous!


Not as bad as one of Ben's old teachers... Scarlett Pears Smile

I've always liked Meg as a name, and Ben says if we have a girl he'd like to call her Kira. I'm not sure about what boys names I like. Peter would definitely be out with Ben's surname though. But maybe Mark, or Stefan.

JackieJ

 


#167:  Author: Kathy_SLocation: midwestern US PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 9:46 pm


But I like Josephine! And Joey probably has something to do with that (*unrepentant*), as well as Alcott's Jo. I do admit that Josie Pye rather destroyed that short for me. I'm not all that keen on Sophy, either, the nickname of choice for the Josefina/Josephines in my own family. But I'd still use the name! (This is all hypothetical, of course, unless I adopt another cat or six.)

 




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