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Ptolemy. What do you reckon?

92 replies

Badgerina · 01/05/2012 21:09

Grin Brew

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Booette · 01/05/2012 22:12

Well I've already admitted to loving it! I just wasn't brave enough to use it for DS5.

Tolly for a nn is great.

Springforward · 01/05/2012 21:56

Not for me, I'm afraid.

Thinking of using it/ know one?

othersideofchannel · 01/05/2012 21:51

I know one, mainly known as Tolly. So it reminds me of him (and he's lovley).

Most names, whilst they may look odd initially, quickly 'become' the person whose name it is. I know a Siobhan, for example, and don't think twice about the 'odd' spelling.

ZZZenAgain · 01/05/2012 21:41

lol family connection.

no

DeadRisingPies · 01/05/2012 21:40

Only if you have a family connection.

AmberLeaf · 01/05/2012 21:40

Awful and your child will be forever spelling it out to people.

Dont do it.

cece · 01/05/2012 21:39

I love it but DH vetoed it. Sad

lisaro · 01/05/2012 21:38

Very 'try hard' and pretentious to the point of twatty.

Flojo1979 · 01/05/2012 21:37

Popoozle u might be right but a lot of ppl spell classic names different these days. And I think ppl would say 'did your mother have a difficult birth, since she has burdened u with such a poncey name?'

keepthechangeyoufilthyanimal · 01/05/2012 21:34

In that case... I think it sounds even more ugly than it looks, sorry

everlong · 01/05/2012 21:33

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EightiesChick · 01/05/2012 21:33

No.

WandaDoff · 01/05/2012 21:32

Ptwatty.

MrsJohnDeere · 01/05/2012 21:31

Awful. Pretentious and ugly.

Popoozle · 01/05/2012 21:31

I love it. There were a family at school with the surname Ptolemy and I always loved the way the word sounded. I didn't realise it could be a first name though until I stumbled across MN!

Flojo - because if you do that your DC will go through life with people saying "didn't your parents know how to spell it then?".

EBDTeacher · 01/05/2012 21:31

Oh, I love it. Love Tolly as a nn too.

You could just go for Tolemy and drop the P. I think you could be forgiven that- the P does make it look a bit odd.

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Badgerina · 01/05/2012 21:30

*It seems like a name where you tried to think of the most preposterous, pretentious name ever but didn't even manage to be original.

All the poncey points, but none of the cool points for picking something unusual.

It seems like what the Modern Parents from Viz would call a son.*

Ha!

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NapaCab · 01/05/2012 21:27

Yikes, that's a bit of a name to carry, don't you think?

Did think for 5 seconds about classical references as middle names for our DS - Socrates or Hypatia if he'd been a girl - but lost my nerve...

boringnickname · 01/05/2012 21:27

Id like it if it were P-tolemy, i always thought it was, otherwise, no

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NorbertDentressangle · 01/05/2012 21:26

Ptolemy to me will always be 'Ptolemy=Ptwat' ever since reading that on a MN thread years ago.

Sorry

BadDayAtTheOrifice · 01/05/2012 21:25

I love it.

iwantanoompaloompa · 01/05/2012 21:24

found it Grin Grin.

But apparently his name was Toseland, not Ptolemy.

It also had a girl called Linnet, which I also quite like.

But, in reality, I think Ptolemy will make you sound like a pretentious swine.

Flojo1979 · 01/05/2012 21:23

Dont like it, then again I like names spelt how u say them! Why not call him Tolahmee?!

Stellan · 01/05/2012 21:20

TOL-ah-mee.

Ptolemy Dean is the one on TV.

Apparently means aggressive or warlike.