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Sapphire - chavvy or posh?

110 replies

ThePartyArtist · 29/04/2015 11:16

Debating the name Sapphire with a friend, she puts it firmly in the 'Chardonnay' camp and I consider it posh, more akin to Cordelia or Jacinta. What do you think?

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TheWildRumpyPumpus · 29/04/2015 13:48

Stripper name absolutely.

GlitzAndGigglesx · 29/04/2015 13:40

I quite like it Blush but then I'm more chavvy than posh!

squoosh · 29/04/2015 13:39

I think I'd rather be Sapphire than Crystal or Topaz. At least you can shorten it to Saffy which doesn't sound too outrageous.

HattyMonkey · 29/04/2015 13:39

I actually wanted to call my little girl Sapphire, when I was 8. Sapphire and Steel was at it's height.

I did have 2 dd's neither are called Sapphire Grin

ParkingFred · 29/04/2015 13:39

Definitely a stripper's name. Lol at posh!

NightsOfGethsemane · 29/04/2015 13:37

I knew a trio of sisters named Sapphire, Crystal and Topaz. They were definitely not posh!

LondonRocks · 29/04/2015 13:34

Doll name.

Or sister of Champayne

Lucy61 · 29/04/2015 13:32

Rough

CloserToFiftyThanTwenty · 29/04/2015 13:31

Stripper

squoosh · 29/04/2015 13:30

I don't think either. I think it sounds like a cabaret singer's stage name and it should have an exclamation mark after it. Sapphire!

I think Emerald is a posh jewel name.

twirlypoo · 29/04/2015 12:38

cubic zirconia has a lovely ring to it Annie Grin

storytopper · 29/04/2015 12:26

Bombay Sapphire Gin? Yes, in the same league as Chardonnay.

anxiousannie10 · 29/04/2015 12:17

I don't think it's either. I'm no Chav and don't consider myself 'posh' but Saphire is just the same as using any other jewel name, such as Ruby, Amethyst or Pearl.

sweetpeame · 29/04/2015 11:51

Errrr...not posh!

Costacoffeeplease · 29/04/2015 11:46

Definitely not posh

SirChenjin · 29/04/2015 11:43

It's new money posh Wink

OttiliaVonBCup · 29/04/2015 11:41

To answer the question.
Sapphire's sister is called Chanelle-Mae.

usualsuspect333 · 29/04/2015 11:37

It's not posh and its not chavvy.

It's just a name.

KoalaDownUnder · 29/04/2015 11:36

Even I know that's not posh, and I'm a bloody Aussie, mate! Grin

twirlypoo · 29/04/2015 11:34

Def not posh

Hakluyt · 29/04/2015 11:33

Not posh.

HellKitty · 29/04/2015 11:29

I imagine Sapphire to be the heroine in one of Katie Price's books.

Koalafications · 29/04/2015 11:29

I know a posh Sapphire, but her parents aren't from the UK so maybe it is different abroad.

ThatsNotEvenAWord · 29/04/2015 11:28

I taught a Sapphire and a Chardonnay, they were sisters.

wonkylegs · 29/04/2015 11:28

Not posh especially when spelt wrong as in DS's class