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would you tell a friend that her new baby's name is used by some to refer to vulva/fanny/tuppence/girlie bits...

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FlyingInTheCLouds · 04/09/2010 21:10

My mate is calling her little girl Minnie (she's now 10 days old).

I thought nothing of it, apart from the Minnie mouse/me connections until I mentionned it to a few friends who said that they used as a baby word for vulva/fanny {insert much argued over word of your choice here].

I had never come across this before but having re-read a few threads on this topic that some people do. It appears to be gaining in popularity.

So should I make my friend aware of this connotation of the name, in case it becomes like being called Fanny (as one of my aunts was much to our amusement as kids).

Or just leave it be.

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Flighttattendant · 05/09/2010 08:16

LOL

I had a boyfriend who called me his Doris

but the ol' beaver was known as a 'muff'

dear me this is a minefield..

whomovedmychocolate · 05/09/2010 07:23

My fanj is called Doris. Grin

Flighttattendant · 05/09/2010 07:19

known, sorry

Flighttattendant · 05/09/2010 07:18

Also if she were considering it, you could have said something then had you know, - but she's not, she's chosen it already so you are duty bound to keep quiet unless it's really, really awful. Which it isn't.

Presumably she didn't run it by you first?
She will have run it by someone and got their approval so really it would be rude to comment negatively.

I would feel you were less of a friend if you did, I think. The moment has passed.

Flighttattendant · 05/09/2010 07:16

It's nOT all that commonplace in Kent as far as I am aware because although I've heard of it, I've never thought of it as meaning that rather than a pretty old fashioned name.

Minnie Driver gets away with it

There are Mary's everywhere

It's in different context and therefore shouldn't HAVE to be a problem unless you are a teenage boy...it's first and foremost a name and you can't avoid ALL the fanjo nicknames or you would be stuffed.

(forgive the expression)

It's a sweet lovely name, don't mention it.

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 05/09/2010 03:52

I've heard it (SW) - would probably feel bound to kind of slip it into the conversation somewhere Blush

I would want to know. If I was calling my DD Fanny and had no idea of the slang I wouldn't thank my friends for keeping schtum.

A1980 · 05/09/2010 00:16

People can take dislike of their choice of baby name very perosnally, even on here among strangers when it isn't actually personal and is just honest opinion.

How would you like it if someone said you child's name was a slang word for vagina?! I think she'll just shoot the messenger. Leave it be.

BosomForAPillow · 04/09/2010 23:59

Of course, sorry.

scottishmummy · 04/09/2010 23:58

soham murders.Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.ian huntley perpetrator

BosomForAPillow · 04/09/2010 23:52

I don't get the Jessica/Holly thing.

Doodleydoo · 04/09/2010 23:26

I still want to know why I didn't know this? Grin

thesecondcoming · 04/09/2010 23:02

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Thingiebob · 04/09/2010 23:00

This was quite a common euphemism when I was a child.

ZENZIZENZIZENZIC · 04/09/2010 22:59

onepieceoflollipop I think mine was 10,000 baby names. This leaves a lot more room for awfulness. Smile

Or rather page fillers that only the criminally insane would use.

scottishmummy · 04/09/2010 22:57

quite an education this has been

Minxie1977 · 04/09/2010 22:55

Minnie, mooie, foo foo, fanjeeta - it's a whole nother thread sm

dott · 04/09/2010 22:54

I am in the south east. After much debate over this issue and the numerous options we decided on minnie as the least worst slang for dd to use. We did not want her to be out of step with her peers and many of her female friends call this area minnie.
I would tell her.

scottishmummy · 04/09/2010 22:52

well i never knew minnie=vagina

Minxie1977 · 04/09/2010 22:50

My aunt met DD for first time a little while ago and {in a chat about nappy rash} asked 'how's her minnie'!?! HAVE TO TELL HER

onepieceoflollipop · 04/09/2010 22:47

I forgot about ned in about a boy.

I think I read about a donkey (a sweet little donkey) called Ned so that would put me off using it for a child.

btw I have no idea why I am on the baby names topic, I have no intention of having any further babies!

VivaLeBeaver · 04/09/2010 22:47

That poor kid will be hounded at secondary school, you must tell the mum before she registers the name!

MummyLovesSadie · 04/09/2010 22:46

Yes I grew up partly in Kent, & Minnie = fanjo. If she has her heart set on the name however, please do not burst her balloon. We all know how bloody hard it is to come up with a name for your baby & once you have found one you finally love it'd be a shame to find out that the good folk of Kent & London are tittering at it!

scottishmummy · 04/09/2010 22:44

in about a boy ned=nice chatteratti name in norf london.im scotland=social death

onepieceoflollipop · 04/09/2010 22:44

ZEN was it 1000 baby names?

See I think what happened was they only managed to find 943, but to keep the number nice and neat they made up the rest!

(943 baby names doesn't really have the same ring to it does it?) Grin

onepieceoflollipop · 04/09/2010 22:42

thanks for translation sm. See it all varies so much regionally and betw England/Scotland/Wales etc :)