Is it just too poncey...

[badkitty]

To call a boy Henry as official/christening name but then always call him Harry in real life?

[ILikeToMoveItMoveIt]

If someone I knew had a Harry, I would probably ask if he was a Henry. I don't think it's poncey at all, but I'm sure others will

[Weegiemum]

No.

That's the right way to do it!

IMHO (ducks)

[DisenchantedPlusBump]

I don't think so.

Whilst we are on 'poncey' is Arabella a culprit?

[kerala]

Its lovely. But then the name we are going for will leave most people standing in the poncetastic stakes.

[badkitty]

Oh good Harry is the only name which me and DH really like, but I have thought maybe it would be nice to have the alternative - if nothing else just in case he gets fed up as he grows up with being one of the billions of Harrys which there will no doubt be in his year!

Henry (Harry) Thomas can remain our working name then...

[tiredemma]

I have a Harry

[badkitty]

I think Arabella is nice, but suppose it might seem poncey to some.

[Reginaphilangy]

No. Not poncy at all. Though i much prefer Harry to Henry.

[ChippyMinton]

if it's good enough for the royal family...

[sannie]

we have a henry...started off to call him harry now somehow he looks just like a henry.....we're def not poncy !

Have met lots of folk who are suprised by the whole henry/harry shortening....

[badkitty]

I think it is quite good to have something longer/more formal to call them by when you are really cross, so they know you mean business!

[Anchovy]

I do think Arabella is uber-poncey. I'm not saying its not nice, but I do think it is one of "those" names which shout "poncey".

I know (loosely) 2 Arabella's and neither of them are poncey, but that's not the point IYSWIM.

[Romy7]

about 50% of them are 'harrison' now aren't they?

prefer henry myself...

[CuckooChocolateOrange]

No. THat doesn't strike me as deserving of a ponce award at all. Harrison is not my style. I would rather Henry/Harry than Harrison/Harry.

And to give you a measure of where I fall on the ponce-ometre, I wouldn't use Arabella. I don't know why, but it's got a poker up its arse. Isabella and Annabella are Italian in origin I think, but Arabella is pure Enid Blyton bad girl.

[dropinthe]

Arabella IMO screams Hervey ponce-ville!!! Sorry-you did ask! x

[Janni]

Henry is posh, there's no doubt about that.
I've never quite understood the Henry/Harry thing. Couldn't Harry also be Harold? Also posh!

[ProfessorGrammaticus]

Henry/Harry is not poncey, just correct ("traditional", if you prefer!)

[Heifer]

I prefer Henry myself, so definately not Poncetastic...

[CuckooChocolateOrange]

I used to know a Henry who was anything but posh. He was a game-keeper, and used to march around with a gun, muttering and swearing and stinking of beer and wee. That is my own personal 'image' when I hear Henry!! I still like the name though.

[Tortington]

no

[kerryk]

i dont think henry is posh/poncy. we have quite a few of them in dd's school.

we even have a henri

[pippibluestocking]

Arabella is not as bad as Araminta aka Minty - now that does score high on the ponce-ometer!

[CuckooChocolateOrange]

Araminta is way off the Ponce-ometre. Go ten miles past the end of the scale and turn right.

Somebody famous has a minty. Pre-minty on Eastenders I wonder? Or, so posh and no-tv-in-the-house-types perhaps? WHO has a baby Minty? Tell me somebody?

[collision]

DN is Henry and not Harry. I love Harry but think Henry is a bit poncey and I really doubt that if your ds was known as Harry that he would want to revert to Henry.

Arabella is cool! Have a friend with an Arabella and she is known as Bella. I love it.