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Harlow?

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pompypomppomp · 13/05/2023 23:02

Middle name for Harlow (boy)?

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JaneJeffer · 20/07/2023 12:13

Kanyego

rickaaaayyyy · 20/07/2023 12:03

Harlow is horrible.

Henley is pretty cool though.

HeyDiddleDumplings · 19/07/2023 23:09

RubaiyatOfAnyone · 13/05/2023 23:08

i believe this name has been raised before, but it bears repeating - have you ever been to harlow? I’m local and it’s a total dump. Do you really want to wish that association on another human being for life?

100% this

Ormally · 19/07/2023 23:07

Harlow Vange (need an Essex accent for it)

Harlow Bulphan?

Harlow Quendon?

Daisybuttercup12345 · 19/07/2023 23:03

Harlow is awful.

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pompypomppomp · 14/05/2023 18:27

So glad I asked, didn't know about the location references

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Lamelie · 14/05/2023 15:52

Arlo is a lovely old English name.

Bananalanacake · 14/05/2023 15:49

I was about to say Harlow is an area in Harrogate. Lots of happy memories of walking to Harlow Hill towers with my gran.

ErrolTheDragon · 14/05/2023 15:46

Harlow Carr is very nice but it'd be a weird thing to call a child.

TheShellBeach · 14/05/2023 15:33

Giggleswick.

phobiaofsocialmedia · 14/05/2023 15:13

What about Pitsea?

midsomermurderess · 14/05/2023 15:13

Sorry, of course, the t is silent in that riposte. Just being dumb here.

SecretVictoria · 14/05/2023 15:10

Mill - if you’re rural, Town - if you’re near a town. Roydon, Broxbourne…🤔

Comedycook · 14/05/2023 15:09

Harlow is a dreadful name...I also was surprised to see it used as a boy's name. Sounds more like a girl's name to me.

kitsuneghost · 14/05/2023 15:07

If he has a sister you can call her Paisley.

BritInAus · 14/05/2023 15:07

It would be like calling a child Luton.

KirstenBlest · 14/05/2023 15:07

According to a Hollywood legend there was a pointed verbal encounter between the movie siren Jean Harlow and the sharp-tongued English aristocrat Margot Asquith. When Harlow attended a party given by Asquith, the movie star presumptuously referred to the hostess by her first name, and she repeatedly mispronounced it as “Margott”, i.e., she pronounced a “t” at the end of the name. Eventually, Asquith responded with a squelcher: "No, no, Jean. The ‘t’ is silent, as in Harlow."

rickaaaaayyyy · 14/05/2023 15:04

Hohofortherobbers · 13/05/2023 23:16

Have you considered Slough?

😂😂😂😂😂

midsomermurderess · 14/05/2023 15:02

Midnightpony · 13/05/2023 23:09

There was a famous put down from Marilyn Monroe?
"Jean Harlow - the T at the end is silent" .

I always think of that

For that to work, the t has to be pronounced.

FitAt50 · 14/05/2023 12:29

Common, just so common.

ourflagmeansdeath · 14/05/2023 12:12

I quite like it as a name if it didn't have the town connotation which obviously everyone will think of

KirstenBlest · 14/05/2023 12:00

Call him Stevenage, at least he could shorten it to Steve, or if you want to stay in Essex, Billericay.

Grapefruittea · 14/05/2023 11:44

@RuthW 😂😂 I can't tell whether you're being ironic!

Grapefruittea · 14/05/2023 11:44

@UndercoverCop haha, I didn't want to say my thoughts on the town but I think this picture sums it up haha!

Grapefruittea · 14/05/2023 11:43

I was born in Harlow, so I will also associate the name with this town in Essex!