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Settle a debate - is it okay to give a child these initials?

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NamechangeMcNameChangerson · 24/11/2017 20:56

Hi,

My DH and I are locked in name negotiations. He thinks it is absolutely fine to give a little boy the initials PNS. I think he will get called "Penis" at school and maybe through adulthood. Thoughts?!

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Helpotron3000 · 24/11/2017 21:00

I'm with him, it's fine

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EduCated · 24/11/2017 21:02

It wouldn't have occurred to me had you not pointed it out.

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ohhelpohnoitsa · 24/11/2017 21:02

I'm with you. I see penis too.

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ButterflyForest · 24/11/2017 21:02

I very much doubt that children at school would work out other children's initials and then think about what they might mean. This never happened at my schoolWink

I think you're safe with those initials. Although, don't use the name with the initials if that's all you're going to think about.

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turquoise88 · 24/11/2017 21:03

At what point will he need to record his initials in that form at school? Or anywhere else for that matter? It's a non-issue. It's fine.

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MyBrilliantDisguise · 24/11/2017 21:03

I would avoid that!

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Katescurios · 24/11/2017 21:03

That's fine, thought it was going to be an actual word like ASS

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BikeRunSki · 24/11/2017 21:04

I’d say it was fine

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HeadsDownThumbsUpEveryone · 24/11/2017 21:04

Absolutely fine I don't think anyone I have met since leaving school knows my middle name, it literally never comes up and I don't think I am that unusual.

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Biggreygoose · 24/11/2017 21:05

To those saying it won't happen...

There was a kid with the initials GGP.

Nickname 'Horsepiss'

It's gonna happen.

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ByThePowerOfRa · 24/11/2017 21:06

I think it’s fine. I would have to think about it before I knew what any of my friends’ initials are.

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HeadsDownThumbsUpEveryone · 24/11/2017 21:08

Am I being dense I don't understand the GGP horse reference so not sure how a child would?? Unless I am missing something very obvious.

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Biggreygoose · 24/11/2017 21:10

Gee gee pee..... ?

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Ecureuil · 24/11/2017 21:11

It’s fine.
What’s a gee gee?

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HeadsDownThumbsUpEveryone · 24/11/2017 21:12

A gee gee???

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BikeRunSki · 24/11/2017 21:13

“Gee gee” is old slang for horse, particularly racehorses.

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NamechangeMcNameChangerson · 24/11/2017 21:16

I know all of my friends' initials. They would often be used as identifiers at school, and there was a girl with the initials SOK who was known as SOK ("Sock") or Socky. I don't think too many kids would miss something this obvious as I've seen far more ingenious creations...

@Biggreygoose Horse piss... Grin

In my workplace they are also used everywhere as identifiers. If I saw PNS I would stifle a giggle.

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Biggreygoose · 24/11/2017 21:17

Old Hmm

Thank fuck someone else got it, thought I was going mental....

Still, kids can be mighty inventive when it comes to insults and nicknames. PNS is very close to penis, I would avoid it if I could.

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Toomanycats99 · 24/11/2017 21:17

School near me has standard uniform rucksack with initials embroidered on it.......they are out there for everyone to see.......

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DramaAlpaca · 24/11/2017 21:19

I see it too OP. I'd avoid.

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NamechangeMcNameChangerson · 24/11/2017 21:20

I wonder if Mumsnet readers are looking at this without a sufficiently juvenile mind... I'm blessed with one, so I feel I'm in a good position to assess this...!

I have a family member who had to actually change the spelling of his name because of an interpretation from all of the other kids that no adult would ever have thought of... PNS seems to me to hand it over on a plate...

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Awwlookatmybabyspider · 24/11/2017 21:20

As pp says. I wouldn't have noticed if you'd not point it out. However other may get on to it, so. No I don't think I'd risk it. TBH

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itshappening · 24/11/2017 21:24

I wouldn't do it OP, for one thing I could never unsee it myself once I had noticed it!

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Biggreygoose · 24/11/2017 21:25

@namechange I like to think it's because we obviously went to schools that encouraged free and imaginative thinking. Grin

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JD360 · 24/11/2017 21:40

I think that's fine my eldest ds initials would have been BJ but changed them to read BAJ now a boy calls him onion baj so I think of you are happy with the name them go for it kids will always be silly to one another if it's not about a name it will be about something else

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