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I can't use these initials can I?

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putputput · 01/05/2017 13:54

One of the only girls names me and dh agree on begins with a B.
Our surname begins with S.
I can't have a little girl with the initials BS can I?

Worse is that the middle name we have agreed on would begin with J.
BJS would definitely be out wouldn't it? Sad

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29Palms · 08/05/2017 15:07

Doesn't seem to have bothered Bruce Springsteen either.

I think people worry too much about this sort of thing. By all means avoid initials that spell out a word like PIG, TIT, WEE etc, but you can take it too far. I was at school with two girls who had the initials VD which at the time was the abbreviation for venereal disease (now called STD). Nobody thought much of it, althought personally I would have avoided putting big stick-on initials on all my stuff, as one of them did. Grin

Frankiefarr · 08/05/2017 12:27

Didn't even get what the initials stood for. I really don't think it will matter and I think it's overthinking things. There are very few times you only write a person's initials anyway.

kittylh · 08/05/2017 11:42

I don't get why things are this are such a problem. They just really aren't. It's hardly something embarrassing. I don't even think BJS is bad. Wouldn't put me off.

NavyandWhite · 02/05/2017 12:53

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DontBuyANewMumCashmere · 02/05/2017 11:00

BS = bullshit. But people actually say, for example, "That's total BS" in American TV shows Grin

carolinescustard · 02/05/2017 10:53

My youngest son is a MLF - one letter off something really rude! Grin

Nametrekking · 02/05/2017 10:47

Sorry to seem naive, but what is BS supposed to stand for?

Joeybee · 01/05/2017 23:58

i don't think kids would pick up on BS tbh, not till high school anyway.

GirlOverboard · 01/05/2017 23:38

Like Britney Jean Spears?

I mean I'm a fan of hers and I don't think I've ever thought twice about her initials being BS/BJS or that she named an album Britney Jean (BJ). In the real world people generally don't notice or care about these things.

FeedTheSharkAndItWillBite · 01/05/2017 23:16

FreeNiki

Well, I got monogrammed stuff when I married DH (I think it's a rather normal wedding gift, isn't it? Or maybe not in the UK, Idk.)

And we also needed monogrammed stuff for school. I just imagine a recorder sheath with the initials "BJS" on it... I mean. That would be rather akward, wouldn't it?

FreeNiki · 01/05/2017 23:11

Unless your initials are monogrammed on a towel who even knows or thinks about it?

I did know a kid with ASS initials and had a monogrammed towel though.

Mumoftheark · 01/05/2017 21:12

😂 I'm pretty immature so I'm going to say definitely not especially with the B. If it makes me laugh it will make kids laugh at her at school.
BS I don't think it's necessarily too bad but BJs no you can't

TaliDiNozzo · 01/05/2017 18:52

I know someone who has given their DD the initials BO. The first name is also a masculine version of a unisex name as well. Not a great idea really.

RedSandYellowSand · 01/05/2017 15:32

What about JBS?
I am e.g. IPG, always called P to avoid being PIG. That doesn't get round the BS initials, which I don't think are that bad.

FluffyBathTowel · 01/05/2017 14:55

I think BS is fine. BJS not so fine.

Sunshineandlaughter · 01/05/2017 14:54

I think bjs or bs is fine!

rainbowsandglitterandshit · 01/05/2017 14:48

I wouldn't, but DC1 has the initials RAT so what the hell do I know!

DontBuyANewMumCashmere · 01/05/2017 14:44

No one would see BJS and read "BJs" surely? Like you'd actually meet a child or an adult and say their initials as bee-jays?
Wouldn't you just say bee-jay-ess?

I'd say BS was worse than BJS as people do actually say "BS".

Xmasbaby11 · 01/05/2017 14:42

OK sure. No, I think it's OK. Most people don't really use their middle name in daily life. I hardly know anyone's middle names. If I was using initials I'd only use BS.

MoonHare · 01/05/2017 14:40

Some people do think initials matter. People who have double meaning initials are probably a high proportion of them.

Laniakea · 01/05/2017 14:40

I wouldn't use BJS but BS with a different middle name is okay I think.

(One of my dc has the initials PLEB - so I might not be the best to advise though!)

OvO · 01/05/2017 14:40

BS is fine. Go for it.

But not BJS!

Xmasbaby11 · 01/05/2017 14:38

Oh ok of course - don't think it's a deal breaker though. Do people really look at initials much?

Pigofwar · 01/05/2017 14:34

I don't think the initials BS matter at all.

FeedTheSharkAndItWillBite · 01/05/2017 14:27

Xmas

Plural of BJ (=blowjob), I would have thought? BJs?

Also the British Journal of Surgery ;)

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