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How Important Are Initials? Quick Poll Needed...

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RunRunAsFastAsYouCan · 20/02/2011 11:47

Finally decided on girls first name, and now moved on to middle name. The problem is all the names we seem to like, and 'flow' with first and and surname, start with 'E'. This would make the initials G.E.L. Do you think this should be avoided on the basis that it forms a word?
Many thanks in advance for your opinion!

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RunRunAsFastAsYouCan · 20/02/2011 20:21

Some of these are hilarious! Keep them coming!! If it's a boy (5 days overdue) we'll have a BEL, hope there is nothing offensive about this that we've missed?

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AnnOnimous · 20/02/2011 18:53

I have a DAM, never gave it a thought then, he has never once expressed an opinion about it.

My cousin was FO!

evilanomaly · 20/02/2011 18:33

my mother's initials: MAD

GEL is fine!

saffy85 · 20/02/2011 18:21

I'm a SAF soon to be a SAW when I change my name by deedpoll later in the year. Having second baby with a PAW.

Imo the initials are no biggie unless they spell something truly awful.

Charlie Robert Andrew Peters (went to school with him- changed his actual names) would be truly cruel

Felicity Ann Gregory- equally so

Peter Owen O'neal- you see where I'm going with this?

The initials GEL are nothing to be worried about imo.

coldcomfortHeart · 20/02/2011 18:20

Good thread! we might end up with a HAM but I'm just not sure. JAM and GEL are quite cute but HAM...

hocuspontas · 20/02/2011 18:15

I wonder how many adults there are with WTF, PMSL, ROFL, etc initials whose parents though they were perfectly safe choices? Grin

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RunRunAsFastAsYouCan · 20/02/2011 18:09

Thanks everyone for your opinions. Agree now that GEL is not too bad, especially in light of your other examples! Think we have it sorted now, at long last. Names are so hard!

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WillieWaggledagger · 20/02/2011 17:09

the woman I know who is std is in her 60s, and I think it was VD back then!

ValiumSandwich · 20/02/2011 16:29

std,, wow. bad

I know somebody who is GBH but grevious bodily harm wasn't a charge back when he was born I wouldn't imagine.

deemented · 20/02/2011 16:12

Gel is ok.

Manshape is STD, and i wonder to myself often WTF his mother was thinking. Mind, seeing the size of him, he doesn't get many people pointing it out to him..

SnapFrakkleAndPop · 20/02/2011 16:01

GEL is fine.

DH's suggestion of TIT was not....

misfitmum · 20/02/2011 15:50

mine might end up being SAW (still deciding though)

TheMonster · 20/02/2011 14:54

GEL is fine. Nothing to worry about.

irregularegular · 20/02/2011 14:53

Agree that GEL is absolutely fine.

My daughter's initials would have been SAD, which I didn't like so added a 'Rose' to make SARD.

Underachieving · 20/02/2011 14:46

Initials matter but only if they amount to something terrible. My sister is J.A.M. and as a child it only ever got her positive attention.

WillieWaggledagger · 20/02/2011 12:44

i know someone with the initials STD.

I think GEL is fine.

SecretNutellaFix · 20/02/2011 12:43

My sister was P A L.

Better than LSD, which I have come across.

Or ARS.

ValiumSandwich · 20/02/2011 12:39

Important if they are bad or rude. GEL is fine.

GiddyPickle · 20/02/2011 12:09

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KingofHighVis · 20/02/2011 12:09

I think Gel would be quite a cool nickname.

randomimposter · 20/02/2011 12:06

No, not an issue
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