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Bridget

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SeanChailleach · 01/02/2021 10:51

What do you reckon for a girl born on 1 Feb?
(Not me, just this is At Bridget's day).

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BorderlineHappy · 03/02/2021 23:35

My middle names Bridget,born on the 1st.
Should be glad it's my middle name.
Thank God for small mercies😂

FluffyEggsontoast · 03/02/2021 16:58

I love it! Very refreshing

YouWontBelieveYourEyes · 03/02/2021 08:02

I don’t like that it rhymes with fidget and midget. Plus ‘Bridg’ as a natural shortening is awful.

partyatthepalace · 03/02/2021 00:37

I do like it.

Unusual without being obscure

PilatesPeach · 02/02/2021 21:20

No - makes me think of nuns.

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SeanChailleach · 02/02/2021 19:50

@Speminalium

I've got one, named after her lovely granny who died before she was born. Also the most excellent ship's baby in Swallows and Amazons. Really unusual but not weird if that makes sense.
The ship's baby grew up into a formidable young woman who had her own boat Scarab in a later book. Grin
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TheWashingMachine · 02/02/2021 18:42

Beyond hideous

YouWontBelieveYourEyes · 02/02/2021 18:33

Really ugly sounding, I really don’t like it. I would hate to be called Bridget.

Speminalium · 02/02/2021 17:44

I've got one, named after her lovely granny who died before she was born. Also the most excellent ship's baby in Swallows and Amazons. Really unusual but not weird if that makes sense.

LouRidley · 02/02/2021 17:41

Same as a previous poster, I WANT to like it but I don’t. I think it’s like my name, nothing wrong with it but still on the wrong side of old fashioned.
As with all names, if I saw an adorable little Bridget, I could very well change my mind :)

Merename · 02/02/2021 16:24

Love Bridget and yes the day of birth is sweet.

skoobysnax · 02/02/2021 16:23

Wonderful

WagnerTheWehrWolf · 02/02/2021 16:20

she had her own brand of 'have sex with anarchist boyfriend in my dead child's mausoleum to see if his soul will transmigrate into a new baby' crazy.

Oh my God, the goth tendencies were strong with that one! Grin

StCharlotte · 02/02/2021 16:18

I love the name Bridget. I have one very close to me. Her nicknames are Bird or Biddy (family) and Bridge and B (friends).

And perfect if born on St Bridget's day.

PrawnCorset · 02/02/2021 16:17

I like Maud G, and the fact that she clearly thought Yeats was a bit of a ninny a lot of the time, but there's no denying she had her own brand of 'have sex with anarchist boyfriend in my dead child's mausoleum to see if his soul will transmigrate into a new baby' crazy.

(Actually, I'm sorrier for Iseult, who had Yeats propose to her mother and her within the same year, and then had an affair with Ezra Pound and married Francis Stuart. That's a lot of fascism.)

WagnerTheWehrWolf · 02/02/2021 16:08

These literary types and their passions.

Kavanagh had a passion for the bottle too so I'll bet he was a 'hammering at the front door at 3 in the morning' type of besotted suitor.

LadyEloise · 02/02/2021 16:05

Possibly.
A bit like Hilda Moriarty O' Malley and Patrick Kavanagh

WagnerTheWehrWolf · 02/02/2021 15:58

muse and unrequited love, or as I call her 'serious victim of Yeats' obsessive stalking'

LadyEloise · 02/02/2021 15:23

I knew a lovely Maud.

Wasn't Maud Gonne Mc Bride the great poet WB Yeat's muse and unrequited love.

WagnerTheWehrWolf · 02/02/2021 15:07

Cedrics and Cyrils no doubt.

TansyViolet · 02/02/2021 14:53

Would love to see a class list from North London. My kids went to school with Lilys, Molly's, Evies etc. What are the boys called in North London who are classmates of Maude and Enid?

WagnerTheWehrWolf · 02/02/2021 14:44

I refuse to be outcooled by a m'fuckin ENID!

NO.

YoniAndGuy · 02/02/2021 14:34

Maude - usually spelled this way - is super cool now.

Margot, Mabel, Enid, Maude, Willa - they are out there and they are COOLER THAN YOU!

Spied · 02/02/2021 12:45

Really like it.
Hate Bridie though.

WagnerTheWehrWolf · 02/02/2021 12:43

I quite like Ursula. Probably wouldn't pick it myself but it's got a bit of haughty sass to it. Would certainly prefer to be called Ursula than either Agnes or Maud. I would not enjoy being an Agnes and I would most certainly not enjoy being a Maud.