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When you hear Cora...

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tinytops · 19/02/2015 12:11

....do you always think Downton Abbey?

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Belazu84 · 19/02/2015 15:27

Love it. Go for it.

TheEagle · 19/02/2015 15:09

I think of Cora from the Agatha Christie novel After the Funeral. Particularly because there was a creepy picture on the front of the edition I had Hmm

But I'm a bit weird Smile

It's a really pretty name.

IsadoraQuagmire · 19/02/2015 15:05

I've never been able to stand more than 5 minutes of Downton Abbey, so I didn't know there was a character called Cora.
I really like the name though. The first person I think of is Cora Pearl.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cora_Pearl

MagratsHair · 19/02/2015 14:06

I don't watch Eastenders or Downton, have no prior association with the name & it makes me think of apples.

Very pretty though, I like it.

charlyn · 19/02/2015 14:06

I have a Cora and never seen Downton Abbey! I became aware of the character shortly before she was born and the Eastenders one after she arrived. I am a little gutted its getting quite popular thanks to these shows! I think of the little girl Cora in Titanic :)

ChickenMe · 19/02/2015 14:04

I think of a dolly. I have no idea why. It's a rather nice name actually. You don't hear it much.

Sophronia · 19/02/2015 13:46

I do think of Downton Abbey.

Didactylos · 19/02/2015 13:00

cora,with those lips of coral
you and i will never quarrel

saki, the secret sin of Septimius Brope

GentlyBenevolent · 19/02/2015 12:59

The Waltons. (Am old)

squoosh · 19/02/2015 12:54

I love PG Wodehouse. Would be great fun to live in one of his books for a weekend.

GerundTheBehemoth · 19/02/2015 12:53

I think of Eastenders, and also of the PG Wodehouse character Cora (Corky) Pirbright.

Trinpy · 19/02/2015 12:51

I thought of Agatha Christie too! There is an eccentric Cora who gets murdered in one of the Poirot books.

Nice, underused name though.

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tinytops · 19/02/2015 12:50

I'd forgotten about LOTM! That is a more appealing reference

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LouiseBrooks · 19/02/2015 12:49

Oh or the 19th century courtesan Cora Pearl!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cora_Pearl

LouiseBrooks · 19/02/2015 12:48

Last of the Mohicans here too

FunMitFlags · 19/02/2015 12:46

Downton

Laquila · 19/02/2015 12:38

Ahhh, Last of the Mohicans! That's a great association - love that film.

OP, I think of dreadful Cora in Downton, but it doesn't put me off a such such a lovely name. Coralie is also gorgeous.

Notso · 19/02/2015 12:36

I think of Corabeth from the Walton's.

anotherdayanothersquabble · 19/02/2015 12:29

Cora is a beautiful Irish name.

SwedishEdith · 19/02/2015 12:24

I think of Last of the Mohicans. Don't watch Eastenders at all. Do watch Downtown but had to think who Cora was for a minute.

LollyLondon · 19/02/2015 12:23

Mostly Downtown.
It's a beautiful name!

Tisiphone · 19/02/2015 12:22

No. It's a gorgeous name, plain, classic and comparatively underused, and our son might have been Cora had he not been a boy.

squoosh · 19/02/2015 12:22

No I think of my aunt. Cora from DA isn't such a terrible association (even though her weird baby voice is really annoying)

momb · 19/02/2015 12:20

Don't watch Easteneders or Downton.
Corah Corman is a pop star/shakira lookalike in the low key (I.e. PG rated) romcon film 'Music and Lyrics', which my children like.

SweetPeaPods · 19/02/2015 12:20

Sorry I think of eastenders too