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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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Westfacing · 28/09/2020 16:32

God help us!

Not knowing the name of the plane is understandable, regardless of age, but not knowing of Hiroshima is unbelievable in a grown adult.

You don't have to have been taught it at school but surely people have heard of nuclear bombs and the two times they have been used?

SoupDragon · 28/09/2020 15:59

I'm appalled - DS1 (21) didn't know what the Enola Gay was. I was confident that he would!

DS2 should know though as he's been to Hiroshima.

WiserOwl · 28/09/2020 15:53

oh no. Enola HOlmes, yes yes, but really it is too much like Ebola

WearyandBleary · 28/09/2020 15:51

God I’m astounded that people don’t know the story of Hiroshima. It’s the key event of the 20th century - probably the central event of scientific advancement in its entirety. Honestly shocked.

I had a terrible education and didn’t learn it at school. You just learn it being part of humanity.

Tweetypietwo · 28/09/2020 15:49

Neola is a nice name instead?

Onceuponatimethen · 28/09/2020 15:45

I love Finula for Derry Girls Smile

SionnachRua · 28/09/2020 15:40

@SeanCailleach never met a Finula but I know a Finola. Not mad about the name - even when it's Fionnuala - but certainly an improvement on Enola 😂

SleepingStandingUp · 28/09/2020 15:34

I'm 38, no idea what Ebola Gay is but how can anyone not have heard of Hiroshima? I remember going to an art gallery with lots of art themed around it and I have a book, a young yeen book, about it. It must have been covered in school hence the trip to the art gallery. Have they really stopped teaching it??

SeanCailleach · 28/09/2020 15:32

Enola = Fhionnuala
Finula might be okay I guess maybe - anyone?
I prefer the Irish spelling to make me think less atom bomb and more Derry Girls chip shop.

Onceuponatimethen · 28/09/2020 15:02

I’m shocked by that @ScarMatty on a number of levels:

Knowing about it = crucial to understanding the end of WWII

Also crucial to understanding the global approach to nuclear weapons control

On a human rights front a major atrocity

AlexaShutUp · 28/09/2020 14:47

Educated in England in a top private school

Shock I'd be utterly appalled if I had paid for a "good" education for my dc and they came out of it without a basic awareness of significant events in history that are so important for the present day world. Your school really failed you in that respect, ScarMatty.

If people lack a basic knowledge of history, I guess it's no wonder that we end up with bad political decisions being made in the present. You can't learn from the past if you don't know about it.

giletrouge · 28/09/2020 13:48

Thank you CatRamsey and ScarMatty too. I'm trying to digest this.

ScarMatty · 28/09/2020 13:46

[quote giletrouge]**@CatRamsey can I ask how old you are and where you were educated? I'm not being rude I promise, I'd like to make sense of how an adult can not know about Hiroshima. Thank you..[/quote]
Also a grown adult here who doesn't know.
Educated in England in a top private school

CatRamsey · 28/09/2020 13:37

@giletrouge I said in my post I'm 24. Educated in Wales. Only did history up to year 9 but can't remember much of it if I'm honest. Definitely never heard of it though.

giletrouge · 28/09/2020 13:32

@CatRamsey can I ask how old you are and where you were educated? I'm not being rude I promise, I'd like to make sense of how an adult can not know about Hiroshima. Thank you..

EvilPea · 28/09/2020 13:29

Ebola for me too

Im 40 and didn't know it was the name of the plane either. I don't remember doing the American / Japanese side of the war at school at all. We only vaguely touched on WW2, did a fair bit on ww1. But it was mostly Tudor and stewart stuff. Which is a shame as i loved the ww2 stuff.

bluemoon2468 · 28/09/2020 13:00

Just makes me think of Ebola 🤢

stairway · 28/09/2020 12:52

No Elona, I think it Hungarian but from the Hebrew Oak tree like Elon (musk)

yikesanotherbooboo · 28/09/2020 12:51

Ilona ?

stairway · 28/09/2020 12:49

What about Elona instead?

mamaonamission · 28/09/2020 12:47

Read it as Ebola

sashh · 28/09/2020 12:45

The hibakusha (survivors of the bombs) and their decedents still face discrimination today.

@JaffaCake70 do you know a different story?

Whatthebloodyell · 28/09/2020 12:14

My first thoughts are ‘enola/alone’ by the maniac. And now I have that song in my head!

hapagirl · 28/09/2020 12:12

My dad knew an Enola. Apparently her dad named her after the Enola Gay and thought that nuking people was good.

NiceGerbil · 28/09/2020 12:10

Google it scar!

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