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Annoyed!!

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Machasma · 09/04/2012 17:35

I've recently made friends with someone. She was pregnant. I've given her lots of baby things, clothes, toys, equipment etc etc. chatted a lot. She has just given birth..... And she has called her son my sons name! A rather uncommon name with our unique spelling. I'm really quite pissed off. My partner can't understand why! Am I being unreasonable?......

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DizzyKipper · 09/04/2012 18:47

I'm also curious to know the name, and wondering like nooka whether perhaps your name and chosen spelling wasn't quite as unique as you thought? (saying that I still don't think I'd give my child the same name as a friend's child anyway, unless I'd always really wanted that name way before the friend...)

ChippingInLovesEasterEggs · 09/04/2012 18:48

Is it Geeorge?

alexpolismum · 09/04/2012 19:00

I am always pleased on the rare occasions I meet another child with the same name as my dd. It's such a beautiful name, there really ought to be more of them.

DessieLou · 09/04/2012 19:03

Care to share then alexpolismum?! Wink

lisad123 · 09/04/2012 19:03

Since having dd1 I have met 3 other children with her name. I hadn't heard it before then

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Machasma · 09/04/2012 19:05

Haha Geeorge ;-). Well I've concluded they won't be in the same class, we aren't best friends, and she lives in the next town. So maybe I should just suck it up. Alright alright. But worried now it will be super common and il look a right div! Or it will be hated and everyone will say why would anyone use it!?..... It's Cormac. I've mostly seen it spelt cormack

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bookbird · 09/04/2012 19:12

Cormac is a lovely name, but it's also the name of one of JK Rowlings characters, so you're likely to come across more than one I'm afraid.

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Machasma · 09/04/2012 19:14

Also have a Hermione in the family so cheers jkrowling! we have no chance Smile

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alexpolismum · 09/04/2012 19:16

My dd's name is Ariadne.

The most beautiful name in the world. So there.

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Machasma · 09/04/2012 19:16

That's a lovely name Smile

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alexpolismum · 09/04/2012 19:17

I've never seen it spelt Cormack before, I thought Cormac was the normal spelling. It was spelt that way in the Irish history book I seem to remember doing.

alexpolismum · 09/04/2012 19:18

You should be pleased she shares your exquisite taste or is it just me that feels that way about my dd's name

bagelmonkey · 09/04/2012 19:18

I've met quite a few adult Cormacs.

SauvignonBlanche · 09/04/2012 19:19

Cormac isn't exactly unusual, I know two.

alexpolismum · 09/04/2012 19:19

Go on, go on, call a future dd Ariadne! You know you want to!

Clary · 09/04/2012 19:19

Oh a friend of mine is set to call her about to be born baby Ariadne! I really like it tho she's getting Hmm this face a lot sadly.

Always a mistake to tell people in advance. I have never met an Ariadne, small or big, so it is unusual. Same goes for Cormac, tho I would spell it that way tbh. Cormac McCarthy? Author?

alexpolismum · 09/04/2012 19:22

Clary Why?? What dreadful taste the people around your friend have if they don't like it. I didn't tell anyone until after the birth for any of my children. My birth announcements went "Ariadne/ds1's name/ds2's name has arrived!"

alexpolismum · 09/04/2012 19:24

Is there really a Cormac in JK Rowling? I immediately thought of Irish history.

chantico · 09/04/2012 19:36

Cormac McLaggen is the JK Rowling character.

Cormac Murphy-O'Connor is the recent archbishop of Westminster.

I see Cormac as the normal spelling. The name isn't that unusual, though I suppose it might be rarer in some regions than others.

BellaOfTheBalls · 09/04/2012 20:23

I've only ever seen it spelled Cormac. Cormac McClaggen, Cormac McArthur. I would consider that the proper, irish spelling & Cormack the messed about with spelling!

MummysLittleSunbeams · 09/04/2012 21:52

Lol at sandin! Grin
Cormac is a lovely name. I've only ever met one. Yes I'd be very pissed off too. I'd find it a bit weird as well tbh.

You must sever your friendship with this woman immediately! Grin

IDontWantToBeFatAnymore · 09/04/2012 21:55

Wasn't there a bar of chocolate called Cormac? It was really lovely unless you ate the whole lot in one go.

SingingSands · 09/04/2012 21:57

Cormac is a really lovely name!

Maybe your friend is a bit unimaginative?

AKissIsNotAContract · 09/04/2012 21:59

IDont: that was caramac!

MummysLittleSunbeams · 09/04/2012 21:59

It was called a caramac .

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