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What do the parents of Arya do?

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ireallyshouldbeworking · 23/11/2012 15:08

Pronounced Arr-yah. If you heard of someone calling their child this name, would you make any assumptions about what her parents were like/ what job they did?

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DilysPrice · 23/11/2012 18:02

...which I think is sweet of DD, she assumes ignorance rather than Nazism.

DilysPrice · 23/11/2012 18:01

But DD (10), who is not allowed to watch GOT funnily enough, says "I'd assume they didn't know much about the Second World War".

hatebeak · 23/11/2012 17:53

Again, American neo-Nazis stockpiling arms in a mountain hideaway. Sorry...
Ariadne, Ariel, Soraya instead?

DilysPrice · 23/11/2012 17:50

IT, both of them.

EmpressOfTheMadBoxOfFrogs · 23/11/2012 17:48

Not having seen Game of Thrones I'd think Third Reich too, sorry.

RillaBlythe · 23/11/2012 17:46

Make swastikas.

BarbecuedBillygoats · 23/11/2012 17:23

How mn
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Not having seen GOT I still don't think it has good connotations

Bumpsadaisie · 23/11/2012 17:18

I'll give you my honest answer - my first thought would be that they were fascist white supremacists (Aryan). Sorry!

Hassled · 23/11/2012 16:55

Potters. I think they'd make pots. Ugly cups etc.

mercibucket · 23/11/2012 16:53

Not sure what their jobs are but it involves crystals, homeopathy, energy fields and tinkling bells

mercibucket · 23/11/2012 16:53

Not sure what their jobs are but it involves crystals, homeopathy, energy fields and tinkling bells

SpringHeeledJack · 23/11/2012 16:49

they live up a mountain somewhere in the States with a gun cache under the bed

givemeaclue · 23/11/2012 16:46

Are ya?
Are ya having tea
Are ya coming out
Etc

givemeaclue · 23/11/2012 16:44

Fantasy role players

helenovhull · 23/11/2012 16:39

Like Hitler and go on EDL marches would be my best guess. I don't think it's very pretty either, what about Aria or Anya instead?

HarlettOScara · 23/11/2012 16:33

I know a baby Arya. Mother is SAHM, father is hand of the king in IT. Both are huge Game of Thrones fans.

IHeartKingThistle · 23/11/2012 16:29

Honestly? I would think they had white supremacist tendencies. I've said this before on another thread about this name. Lots of people don't know it's from Game of Thrones and those 'Aryan' connotations would make me very uncomfortable tbh.

Shame, because in itself it is a pretty name!

MikeLitoris · 23/11/2012 16:21

I have never made a sex noise that sounds like Arya, I hope not anyway

The arya I know is the daughter of a nurse and an IT person (

D0oinMeCleanin · 23/11/2012 16:18

ar-re-a would be Aria. Arya is as the OP says it.

ChocolateCoins · 23/11/2012 16:08

I thought it was pronounced ar-re-a? Blush this is what I'm planning on calling dc2 if it's a girl.

AlphaBeta82 · 23/11/2012 15:49

There is a version of the name Ayra pronounced I-ra - I think both versions are a lovely name!

almapudden · 23/11/2012 15:48

Weave lentils and bake placenta cupcakes.

ditavonteesed · 23/11/2012 15:47

the ones I know are teachers. hth

StrawWars · 23/11/2012 15:45

They could be porn-stars. Arr-yah does sound a bit like a sex-noise.

CaptainBarnaclesDaddyman · 23/11/2012 15:42

Pirates. Arr and yah are two very piratey noises.