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Lydia

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DessieLou · 16/11/2013 09:58

Thoughts? I rather like it and there is none that I know of round here. We are English living in Scotland and I've read on here Lydia means teapot in Scotland - anyone heard of this?!

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killpeppa · 16/11/2013 11:07

I used to love it...
then I knew a Lydia & she was a dick, so it killed it for me.

but nice name Smile

NoComet · 16/11/2013 11:05

I know I'm being ridiculous. I only know one Lydia and she's lovely.

But I use several of the aforementioned distinctive French preserve vessels for keeping sugar and half tins of soup and pasta rings in and they jump unbidden into my mind.

Would help hugely if I wasn't dyslexic, if I heard the name and saw the spelling Lyd(ia), as DD2 would, I'm sure I wouldn't have a problem.

MrsDmitriTippensKrushnic · 16/11/2013 11:03

Never had that sung at us either (not that it would bother me or her tbh) She does however have a very nice t-shirt with an Art Deco picture of Lydia-from-Beetlejuice (Winona Ryder) which is our favourite 'famous' Lydia (it's also a saints name - first European woman baptised, St Lydia Purpuraria)

Cremolafoam · 16/11/2013 10:58
Sorry op but it made me think of this. Fwiw I think its a gorgeous name and have never heard the connotations you describe.
Catsmamma · 16/11/2013 10:53

I wanted dd to be called Lydia, but dh vetoed it on the grounds of the tattooed lady song, as mentioned!

One of the midwives was called Lydia and I felt sure I'd get my way, what with that being A Sign....... and she had NEVER EVER had that mentioned to her, but dh stood firm, so it is her middle name instead.

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DessieLou · 16/11/2013 10:51

Oh is that what they meant? Lydia teapot = lid of your teapot? Jeez, how do they come up with these ridiculous connections?! Hmm

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HaggertyF · 16/11/2013 10:50

Nice name - but forever associated with Groucho Marx singing 'Lydia the Tattooed Lady'.

Leeds2 · 16/11/2013 10:49

I think it's lovely.

Never heard of the teapot connection (although I am not Scottish).

MrsDmitriTippensKrushnic · 16/11/2013 10:46

It's my DDs name so I think it's pretty good actually. Smile

She's 10 and so far has never been teased for anything to do with lids or teapots or any of the other weird things MNers come out with on previous threads about the name. It's pretty uncommon still I think - DD's the only one in her school atm, and I've only come across a couple of others via Mums yelling it across the shop floor when I'm at work Grin

NoComet · 16/11/2013 10:15

No idea, just always makes me think of those red gingham jam jar lids

Very childish, but it's not a name I can take seriously.