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Enola for DD?

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scarletm · 27/09/2020 18:56

me and DH watched Enola Holmes recently with his nieces and would love the same name for DD. We do thinks it's a little different though! Any thoughts??

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blueberrypie0112 · 01/10/2020 19:37

@giletrouge

blueberrypie0112 have you read any of the thread? Any of it at all?
You mean about the name of a plane? Or getting mixed up with Ebola? Yes I read it, but if this a popular show, she probably won’t be the only one to name her baby enola and so they will associate it with the movie than anything else.

BUT I am not sure how popular it is.

giletrouge · 01/10/2020 19:30

blueberrypie0112 have you read any of the thread? Any of it at all?

blueberrypie0112 · 01/10/2020 18:30

Enola , why not, I would not be surprised you will the the only one to name your child after a movie.

I like how her name is spelled Alone in backward (I seen the movie :)

Nonamesavail · 01/10/2020 18:25

I know a 11yr old Enola and I think of ebola or granola

SleepingStandingUp · 01/10/2020 09:27

This is why some countries have a list on like 50 names you're allowed to use!

arethereanyleftatall · 01/10/2020 08:06

This is the best baby names thread I've ever read. I've learnt a lot this morning. So, don't call a child Enola, enola, or Leopold.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 01/10/2020 07:21

That idea of "reclaiming" is an interesting now Snowdrops - like you, though, I would'nt be the one to make that move.

SnowdropFox · 30/09/2020 23:05

A bit late to the party but I know an Enola. Her dad specifically named her after the plane. As an adult she is mortified. Interestingly she has not chosen to change her name or use her mn instead.

Its a difficult one as I believe in "reclaiming" some of the names people have mentioned in the hope that these children grow up to give more positive associations to those names (no matter how small). I dont know if I could do it myself though.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 30/09/2020 21:04

You think it is a good idea to name a child after the plane that dropped the atomic bomb, @Redcups64?

SchadenfreudePersonified · 30/09/2020 21:03

I totally agree that we should be much more worried about what is happening in the world right now than what happened in the past. That is self evident. However, I think the two are indivisible.

I agree - on Holocaust Memorial Day (27th January) I always emphasise why and how the Holocaust is a contemporary issue, and how "mini" holocausts are happening all over the world at this very moment.

A poster upthread commented how unbelievable how brutal to each other people can be, and I totally agree. If our governments put a tenth of the money and scientific expertise into solving the climate crisis, and world hunger as they put into developing weapons - including biological weapons, then we would be in a much better place environmentally, socially and personally.

Theradioison · 30/09/2020 20:34

Redcups64

32 and never heard of enola gay before this thread.

I like the name and would choose it.

So after 17 pages of 99% appalled reaction over the connotations of the name you would seriously still choose it??

SleepingStandingUp · 30/09/2020 09:41

@Redcups64

32 and never heard of enola gay before this thread.

I like the name and would choose it.

Even after this thread??
sashh · 30/09/2020 09:20

On August 9th Japan accepted the Potsdan treaty with the caveat, "said Declaration does not comprise any demand which prejudices the prerogatives of His Majesty as sovereign ruler.”

The second bomb was due to be dropped on the 12th, it was brought forward (due to weather conditions) and dropped about 12 hours later.

I grew up with, that Japan were prepared to fight to the death of the last man, woman and child. Or at least hold the Philippines and Manchuria.

The Soviet Union had also declared war on Japan and was in Manchuria, there wasn't much chance Japan could defeat the US and the USSR. The Japanese navy was useless by this point.

Redcups64 · 30/09/2020 08:12

32 and never heard of enola gay before this thread.

I like the name and would choose it.

SeanCailleach · 30/09/2020 08:07

@sashh

Now I know the bomb existed, I know it brought about the end of the war but that’s it

That's debatable, as for Fat man ...

At the time it was dropped, Japan had offered conditional surrender, the only condition being that the emperor would remain emperor.

That's an alternative version to the story I grew up with, that Japan were prepared to fight to the death of the last man, woman and child. Or at least hold the Philippines and Manchuria. Which is supported by the readily available Wikipedia article. Your evidence for your version?

This is why it is important for people to know this piece of history. The atom bomb did end the war. The question is whether it was necessary, and what other options were available at the time.

MysteriesOfTheOrganism · 30/09/2020 05:52

Atomic bomb. And likely too be called "granola" at school. Bad choice.

sashh · 30/09/2020 05:18

Now I know the bomb existed, I know it brought about the end of the war but that’s it

That's debatable, as for Fat man ...

At the time it was dropped, Japan had offered conditional surrender, the only condition being that the emperor would remain emperor.

Ghosts2020 · 30/09/2020 02:41

Nuala
Ennie
Nora
But not enola

Theradioison · 29/09/2020 20:06

Seems almost like OP dropped an atomic bomb and flew off...

Don't blame them entirely!

SumAndSubstance · 29/09/2020 19:58

Seems almost like OP dropped an atomic bomb and flew off...

KnightsofColumbusThatHurt · 29/09/2020 19:41

Yes my first thought was Enola Gay too. I'm quite shocked that people have never heard of it I have to say!

Theradioison · 29/09/2020 19:37

19:15SeanCailleach

It just gets worse does it not! Confused

NiceGerbil · 29/09/2020 19:34

'Which is now going to be more associated with Enola Holmes.'

What, globally?
After a made for streaming TV film???

SeanCailleach · 29/09/2020 19:15

@Theradioison but Enola Holmes is Sherlock's sister. And while the film with Enola is a frothy bit of mind candy with Enola as a very clever detective, in the BBC version Sherlock is a high-functioning drug addicted sociopath and his sister Euris is a lunatic. Why would you name your daughter after Sherlock's sister?

Theradioison · 29/09/2020 19:06

Posters do know that the OP isn’t naming her child ‘Enola Gay’, just ‘Enola’?

Which is now going to be more associated with Enola Holmes.

You are joking aren't you? 16 pages of everyone, literally everyone apart from a couple of posters being completely horrified that it would even come in for consideration given the context?? Who the f* is Enola Holmes? Don't answer that actually because I'm really not interested

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