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The top names for 2011 were Harry and Amelia.
Ever since a nurse friend, who happens to be called Amelia, told me that amelia is the congenital absence of a limb I have wondered whether registrars should point this out to parents who propose it.
And if they did - or do - whether it would or does deter people from registering it.
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>> Ever since a nurse friend, who happens to be called Amelia, told me that amelia
>> is the congenital absence of a limb I have wondered whether registrars should point this
>> out to parents who propose it.
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>> And if they did - or do - whether it would or does deter people
>> from registering it.
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I once worked with a girl called Candida...I had no idea of the female medical condition associated with the name, until a female told me. Until then I thought it was a nice name.
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I went out with a Tara once (which means hill) I did manage to surmount her, eventually.
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Cameron means crooked nose (not a lot of people know that)
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>> Cameron means crooked nose (not a lot of people know that)
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How apt!
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Better than circumvent Doggo....................or even Sircum vent.
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"I once worked with a girl called Candida.."
Was that Chlamydia's sister?
Last edited by: CGNorwich on Mon 13 Aug 12 at 19:56
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I've met a couple of Amelias and they are nice girls. It's a bit unkind to point out that perfectly respectable names have been appropriated by the medical profession to name fungal infections.
My youngest daughter has two names often associated with Irish Catholic nuns. A friend, now dead, begged me to call her something else because he knew someone with those names and she was a terrible slut.
God he could be annoying, cheeky sod. I wasn't at all pleased.
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'Baby names': something wrong with that phrase. Today's Alfies and Maisies have the opposite problem to the Reginalds and Ethels of yesteryear: instead of names they had to grow into, they have names they'll have grown out of by the time they're eight. For heaven's sake, parents, it's a person, not a pet; Alfie is a name for a Yorkshire terrier, not a human being.
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Sweet WdB - that's getting cut'n'pasted onto some social media.
Should get right up the nose of some idiot parents :-)
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I like the occasional articles which surface purporting to come from primary school teachers, detailing the names of that year's charges. Legions of little Ikeas and Nokias abound.
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>Legions of little Ikeas and Nokias abound.
Damn chavs!
Whatever happened to traditional english names like Chardonnay, D-wayne and Kevin?
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>>Alfie is a name for a Yorkshire terrier,<<
That's upset a mod now!
Pat
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Alf is thus named because he's an Awkward Little er...Fellah...!
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An Awkward Little Four-legger too, I presume. In which case, who needs to be upset?
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'Sudu and Chooti will drive you back.' A bit of dialogue from the excellent novel I am reading.
Sudu is a bit run-of-the-mill, but I really like the name (or nickname I suppose, but lots of children are christened with nicknames these days) Chooti.
It may be best suited to a Tamil gangster, but has such charm that I would like to see more Chootis on our streets.
Just an idea for anyone bored with Jack and Harry and stuff whose other half is about to bear male issue.
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'What's it all about... AlfIIIIEE?'
That was a naff movie if you like (AC's Cinematic Sh!t Lists, no 47: 10 most rubbish trendy British sixties-era dramas).
But why didn't we hear this ditty, and the glorious old scouse shouter, contralto is she?, in last night's closing ceremony, eh? Eh?
Don't know do you. Tchah.
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You mean the Michael Caine movie? Its about the only thing he's ever done that I actually like.
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Get Carter? The Ipcress File?
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Manatee,
Don't you find Michael Caine quite hard work to watch?
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>> Manatee,
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>> Don't you find Michael Caine quite hard work to watch?
Well maybe he's not a great actor ;-)
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'Alfie'.
Who was that boy who played the lead? Not Michael Caine surely? Adam Faith, someone like that.
EDIT: oh damn, you may be right. Still didn't like the movie or the song.
Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Tue 14 Aug 12 at 00:43
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*may* be right? Go and wash your mouth out with soap! "may" indeed. Harummph.
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The original Alfie was Caine surely! 1966 as a timeframe. What have I missed?
He (Caine) has never been an actor (good or bad). But has been someone in lots of good films. Did he act in Zulu?
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Ah I forgot that one. I love Zulu and I've watched it a squidrillion times. And I found him a bit cringeworthy even in that.
And You're right, he's not an actor. But I find him intense to the point I keep remembering that he is acting in a film rather than a believable character in a story.
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>> He (Caine) has never been an actor (good or bad)
I'm fairly sure I've seen him act, and act well, but I can't remember what in. He tends to rely on star quality though. When you have that you don't have to act.
Clearly my memory is unreliable, but I think in Alfie he did play, quite seriously, a rather nasty character. Did later make a few quite bad movies, but some good ones too. Now a Hollywood diva more or less.
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OK, enough about Alfie! What happened to Simon? There were five Simons in my class of 24 boys in 1980 but there don't seem to be many under 30 now and none at all among the under-10s. Was it a fashion name, like the similarly biblical Joshuas and Noahs that were everywhere when we were naming in the early 2000s, whose time came and went?
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>> OK, enough about Alfie! What happened to Simon?
The same as happened to David, Robert, Paul, John, Peter, Alan, Ian, Richard, names of my generation?
My son Simon was named in 1985. He hasn't complained about that.
I've heard many parents who have used diminutives say it's to prevent their child's name being shortened. They haven't thought that one through IMO. If you want your son to answer to Billy, name him William and use Billy, and leave him with a choice. Prince Harry's given name is
Henry which might come as news to quite a few who named their sprogs after him.
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>> 'Baby names': something wrong with that phrase. Today's Alfies and Maisies have the opposite problem
>> to the Reginalds and Ethels of yesteryear: instead of names they had to grow into,
>> they have names they'll have grown out of by the time they're eight.
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Well Will, time will tell.
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Now I wonder who that could've been ... ?
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My grandmother-in-law was Maisie Thelma - born in 1914. She didn't have a problem with her name .... what was the song "Maisie dotes ..." ? she used to sing to the great grandchildren.
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I noticed that there were quite a few names which at one time would have been thought of as informal versions of the full name.
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>>>OK, enough about Alfie! What happened to Simon? <<<
went out with Simon Dee? :)
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What happens to people with surnames that have become associated with famous criminals, or medical conditions?
Crippen, Hitler, Shipman, Alzheimer, Cray, Down, Asperger, etc.
Do they all change their names, or do they go through school endlessly teased and bullied or the butt of feeble jokes?
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Teased + feeble jokes I would say (unless it was Hitler!) I knew a Teresa Green back in Hastings, I quite liked that.
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I loved Michael Caine with Steve Martin in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels....a great and underated comedy
How about calling your son Ruprecht.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF8QAeQm3ZM&feature=related
The ' May I go to the bathroom ' line at around 6.40 always cracks me up....
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I used to know a Stephen Bend...
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Seems to be the "Fad" around here at the moment to give the "Darling" Chavlings double-barreled Christian names like: Ash-lee, Emma-jane, Emma-Lou, Mark-Alan, John-Joe etc. But what would you do with a "Tarquin", as I heard one chav call out to her offspring on a train recently!!
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But what would you do with a "Tarquin"
Move to Tuscany and set up a ruling dynasty?
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Pollytwaddle is on the way to that, surely?
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"Pollytwaddle is on the way to that, surely?"
You've lost me there
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>> Benjamin Dover?
aka Lindsay Honey.
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Emma May, but then again she may not.
:}
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Jamaica?
No she let me!
End of rubbish and very old jokes.
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>> >> Benjamin Dover?
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>> aka Lindsay Honey.
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Quite so!
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>> >> Benjamin Dover?
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>> aka Lindsay Honey.
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His baby was given this name: Lindzi James Tyger Drew-Honey
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyger_Drew-Honey
www.wimbledonguardian.co.uk/news/1671516.porn_to_be_a_star/
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my granny said to me , when swmbo was with child ' dont give the pfd a name that can be shortened' ...her words not mine...........give it a monosylibic one, so after some umming and arring we called him ASH.....AND WE ARE NOT tree huggers or arsonists...
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>> ASH.....AND WE ARE NOT tree huggers
>> or arsonists...
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Anti-smoking activists, Zoo, if I may call you that ?
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...Ash...
Didn't we have a poster on here called Ash?
Perhaps it was the other place.
I knew an Asian in London who called himself Ash in English company, but I think it was short for a longer name.
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>>Perhaps it was the other place.
Yes, at the other place.
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AshT. Last Post 8 May 2012. Last visit 12 Aug 2012.
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...AshT. Last Post 8 May 2012. Last visit 12 Aug 2012...
Here or there?
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>> ...AshT. Last Post 8 May 2012. Last visit 12 Aug 2012...
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>> Here or there?
Must be here as you cannot click on people's names over there anymore to bring up their stats.
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I didn't do my homework :-(
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Ash is normally short for Ashwin .... I too have an Indian friend of that name but he normally gives it in full.
Could also be short for Ashley which is one of those irritating names that can be used for both sexes........
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...which is one of those irritating names that can be used for both sexes...
If the name is written down, spelling can help.
Leslie is male, Lesley is female - usually.
Dunno if the same applies to Ashley.
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>> Dunno if the same applies to Ashley.
I would have thought Ashley and Ashleigh were the male and female versions of that name.
There are a few names which rely on spelling to determine which sex they fit: Robin / Robyn, and Terry / Terri are just a couple of examples.
There has been a big resurgence in 'traditional' names over the past decade, particularly with boys. My daughters school classes have plenty of Jacks, Harrys, Williams, Charlies and Thomases.
Naming our two daughters was relatively straightforward in that both Mrs DP and I agreed on a number of possibilities relatively quickly. Had we had a boy, or boys, I suspect we'd still be arguing over names now. :-)
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I was at an engagement party , 2 weeks ago, and the " legendary" Ben Dover was there as well,seems like a nice guy, though a bit up himself, but he was surrounded by fellow " actors" most of he'd worked with at some stage, lucky git
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>> the " legendary" Ben Dover was there as well,seems like a nice guy, though a bit up himself.
Exactly my thoughts when I met him last year. Little respect for women also. Most likely due to his chosen career.
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though a bit up himself.
Do unto others that you would do unto yourself! - Tis in the Bible!
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Baby names - Westpig
