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I love this old name...

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VisualiseAHorse · 11/09/2014 13:22

... Euphemia.

What do you think?

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sonniebonnie · 11/09/2014 13:56

I know an Effie whose full name is, I think, Euphemia. I quite like it.

Sidney · 11/09/2014 13:56

Effie makes me think of effing.....

MissPB · 11/09/2014 13:54

Not keen - it makes me think of a musical instrument called a euphonium.
It is very Victorian consumptive sort of name. Sorry if you love it so - it would be quite a hard name to carry off.

Thurlow · 11/09/2014 13:52

I'd have to go with disease too

ConcreteElephant · 11/09/2014 13:48

I don't know if it has much history in England/ Wales. I'm from Devon which may be why I'd never heard it before. Nearer Scotland it may not sound so unusual if you were to use it today.

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VisualiseAHorse · 11/09/2014 13:44

I first saw it on a gravestone from the 1800s in Scotland. It does sound a little like a disease doesn't it...? Hmmm.

I like Effie too.

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ConcreteElephant · 11/09/2014 13:36

I also agree with Cereal that in full it sounds like a disease, though I feel very disloyal to Nana saying that!

ConcreteElephant · 11/09/2014 13:35

My Nana was Euphemia, she died when I was little so I don't remember her but by all accounts she was a wonderful, formidable woman.

I'd never heard it but on a walk round a graveyard in Edinburgh I saw that it had clearly been a popular name in Scotland, and indeed she was Scottish.

I like it, but I think today it would be shortened to Effie or similar to modernise it. As Cherry said.

Cereal0ffender · 11/09/2014 13:35

Makes me think of respiratory disease

scaevola · 11/09/2014 13:32

I like it.

Buy it does make me think of Nuns on the Run and Sister Euphemia of the Five Wounds, "Five Wounds for short"

cherrybombxo · 11/09/2014 13:30

I went to school with a girl whose middle name was Euphemia and she was mortified. I think Effie is lovely so she could shorten it but I'm really not a fan of the full name.