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Edmund?

28 replies

NewlyMintedPeasant · 17/08/2012 22:39

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Takver · 19/08/2012 21:29

I like Edmund a lot (but must admit that Mansfield Park is my favourite Jane Austen novel).

I also like Edgar, which you don't run into that often.

Roseformeplease · 19/08/2012 20:53

I really, really wanted an Edmund. However, it can be shortened to Ned which, here in Scotland, is not a very nice term ( similar to Chav) so it had to be vetoed.

Skellig · 19/08/2012 20:51

DH was nearly an Edmund, but his mum was worried he'd get called Eddie. So she called him Richard, and he gets called Dickie. Can't win. :)

He always wishes he'd been called Edmund, incidentally, and I think it's a lovely name - classic and yet slightly unusual.

survivingsummer · 19/08/2012 16:29

I do really like it and it was high up on my list for DS - but just couldn't shift the image of Blackadder from my mind so didn't choose it in the end!

BigHairyFlowers · 18/08/2012 21:44

"No no no, sorry, not Edward, EdMUND! Edward - normal person. EdMUND - weird person. MUND!"

It's from the episode of Miranda where her mum throws one of her literary themed parties that turns into a Tipping The Velvet themed coming out party, as she would rather declare herself a lesbian than be set up with someone named Edmund.

But seeing as I seem to be the only person to whom that came to mind, it's probably safe..!

MrsJamin · 18/08/2012 19:01

I love it, sophisticated but not as posh as Hugo or Ernest, with loads of cool NNs like Ted, Eddie. Do it!

BillyBollyBandy · 18/08/2012 18:37

Makes me think of Blackadder but doubt any peer of any potential DS would tbh.

Baldrick's first name was Sodoff

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Badgerina · 18/08/2012 18:16

Edwyn is better.

Badgerina · 18/08/2012 18:16

Black adder. Turkish delight. Don't like the "mund" sound.

HiHowAreYou · 18/08/2012 18:02

It makes me think of Mun Verney.

KenDoddsDadsDog · 18/08/2012 17:42

Yep , Lord Percy. But Blackadder was very cool!

Beamur · 18/08/2012 17:41

I like it. Chum of mine has an Edwyn, Ted for short which is of a similar vein.

LineRunner · 18/08/2012 17:40

Beautiful

thewhistler · 18/08/2012 15:04

Know two lovely adult Edmunds. They do have to keep telling people it isn't Edward.

Oops, three. One about 40, one 30, one 19.

strugglingwiththepreteenbit · 18/08/2012 14:57

btw, did Baldrick have a first name? I suddenly want to know.

strugglingwiththepreteenbit · 18/08/2012 14:55

I know an infant Edmund, so fear it may be getting popular. I also think Blackadder.

Trills · 18/08/2012 10:44

Fanny was so dull though.

MildredIsMyAlterEgo · 18/08/2012 10:33

Catsmamma so do I

UnnamedFemaleProtagonist · 18/08/2012 10:30

Yes, Edmund was a nice one. He married Fanny.

Trills · 18/08/2012 10:11

Mansfield Park is the rubbishest Jane Austen.
Was Edmund a nice one?

UnnamedFemaleProtagonist · 18/08/2012 10:07

Mansfield Park.

Catsmamma · 18/08/2012 10:05

I always hear Edmund as spoken by Lord Percy.

Trills · 18/08/2012 10:03

He wasn't a dick, he grew up and learned a lot and had more in the way of character development than any of the others, who essentially remained the exact same people forever.

Fuzzymuzz · 18/08/2012 09:59

Love it

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