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Araminta and Antonia

33 replies

Cortina · 17/08/2010 12:45

Is Araminta upper class and Antonia an upper middle class name?

I quite like Antonia but it conjures up an overweight, dandruffy, late middle aged slightly ruddy faced Sloane to me. Someone who helps out in a stately home is is very knowledgeable in the decorative arts. Probably a bit horse faced and sour breathed with the beginnings of whisker on her chin. So not a overly positive image then :)

And Araminta I love, but how could I use it? How can anyone use it without looking like a berk unless they own half of Gloucestershire?

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magichomes · 17/08/2010 15:56

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ValiumSingleton · 17/08/2010 15:52

lol at agonising over the difference between upper middle class and just middle class, and yet missing the fact that they are both minging.

at least Antonia can be Ana though.

Cortina · 17/08/2010 15:52

Magic have you met me? :) I have to move away from the smocking when in over-priced shops with DS!

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rachel234 · 17/08/2010 14:32

I love Antonia, I think it sounds feminine and elegant. Araminta sounds less nice to my ears.

FourEyesGood · 17/08/2010 13:32

Araminta smacks of a chinless wonder who hasn't done a day's work in her life, and Antonia makes me think of a well-dressed frigid old lady tutting at the world and its lack of good opera. Neither of them is a baby's (or child's, or teenager's, or young woman's) name. Sorry!

MadreInglese · 17/08/2010 13:26

I don't like either tbh

Norsedriver · 17/08/2010 13:25

Araminta is very posh. Antonia is one of those names where it looks like you really wanted a boy. I don't like boys names made into girls.
Neither for me, sorry.