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What about Horace then?

43 replies

Frontier · 21/07/2014 22:26

Someone I know has gone with this. I'm afraid I initially thought she was joking and may not have conducted myself very well but actually I'm starting to like it.

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blueberryboybait · 23/07/2014 09:55

Totally off topic but I once had a barn owl called Horace!

Scorchienn · 23/07/2014 09:50

I like it, my ds is nicknamed Horatio, but sometimes Horace too. No bearing on his actual name.

AlleyCat11 · 23/07/2014 09:48

Hungry Horace

MrsBungle · 23/07/2014 09:37

Horace makes me think of the broons!

Horace is truly awful. As is Cyril and horatio in my opinion.

Superrhan · 23/07/2014 09:34

Horace and Horatio are just too upper class to me. Like, I can't imagine one living where I live or going to schools in this area. But if I were to send them to private school, the names became more bearable....

But too toff-y to make it on to any of my lists.

BreeVDKamp · 22/07/2014 21:21

Why do a lot of us connect Horace with pigs? Is there some nursery rhyme or something from our childhoods featuring a pig called Horace??

squoosh · 22/07/2014 19:29

It would take a heck of a lot of getting used to!

Bowlersarm · 22/07/2014 19:25

I quite like it.

It would take some getting used to though.

stripedtortoise · 22/07/2014 19:24

Not a fan but totally agree with Singer.

When people say 'can't imagine a baby called x' I'm like - so what? Baby will be a teenager, an adult and probably an old person so a grown up name is MUCH better than a cutsie baby name!

aoife24 · 22/07/2014 19:14

Hungry Horace Smile

AllMimsyWereTheBorogoves · 22/07/2014 17:36

Oh yes! Grin

Maryz · 22/07/2014 17:23

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AllMimsyWereTheBorogoves · 22/07/2014 17:19

Damn! Sorry, Squoosh. Quadruplet boys: Boris, Horace, Maurice, Norris. What I particularly like about that is that they rhyme but they're all spelled differently. Smile

prettyinpink90 · 22/07/2014 17:11

Nope, definitley not for me.

Theas18 · 22/07/2014 17:09

Horace nn Ace is a great name.

However I have known 2 lovely lovely old gents called this so I'm biased

squoosh · 22/07/2014 17:08

Excuse me! What about Boris?

AllMimsyWereTheBorogoves · 22/07/2014 17:07

Triplet boys: Horace, Maurice, Norris.

Gingerjv · 22/07/2014 16:58

I do not like Horace, But I love Horatio!!!!;-)

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 22/07/2014 16:17

But prefer Maurice.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 22/07/2014 16:17

I rather like it.

ElizabethMedora · 22/07/2014 16:16

I love Horatio.

Pangaea · 22/07/2014 16:16

I really like it.

Viviennemary · 22/07/2014 16:11

It's dire. It's one of these names when people think how on earth could anybody call a child that.

Trondheim · 22/07/2014 16:07

Agree with singers girl and the pp who said Horace goes skiing

singersgirl · 22/07/2014 16:01

I don't much like Horace as it sounds too much like 'horrid' for me, and also visually reminds me of 'grimace'.

But to the poster who said 'Do people meet really old people and think what lovely names for my tiny baby', may I point out that, if all goes well, you are not just naming a 'tiny baby'? You are in fact naming a child, a teenager, a young man or woman, a middle-aged man or woman and an old person.

Names fall in and out of fashion. All old people were once babies and then little boys and girls and then young adults. Little boys and girls will, if they're lucky, be old people.

And why shouldn't I meet a wonderful old person and want to name my lovely baby after them? Being wonderful and inspirational is not the prerogative of the young and fashion-led.