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Did anybody see Tuppence Harmony in the UK birth announcements yesterday?

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MadameCh0let · 19/03/2008 16:16

Whaddyall think? Lovely alternative to Florence or is it bl00dy awful?

I don't absolutely hate it. I've heard worse. Penny is a possible nn.

Actually, I object more to the middle name, Harmony.

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AHLH · 28/03/2008 15:29

My sister's middle name is Harmony, but sandwhiched between two more traditional names, sounds OK.

Tuppence just sounds like a nickname, and she will always have to explain that it isn't.

Taught a girl called "Song" once.

twirlymum · 27/03/2008 22:04

Knew a girl called Summer Day (honestly). Her sister was called Sugar. Couldn't say it without smirking.

CocoDeBearisCocoDeBear · 21/03/2008 20:54

Not that well known, it would seem!!

LarryVeest · 21/03/2008 20:49

Isn't Tuppence a fairly well known nick name for Penelope? I quite like it.

fedupandisolated · 21/03/2008 20:41

My piss taking ex always reads the birth announcements in the Times to see what poncy "pseuds corner" type names he can find - this one sounds right up his street.

CocoDeBearisCocoDeBear · 21/03/2008 20:38

Or dick

CocoDeBearisCocoDeBear · 21/03/2008 20:37

Good point DD

DumbledoresGirl · 21/03/2008 20:31

I have heard that some people refer to their vulva as Tuppence, but that has never stopped anyone calling their son Willy has it?

expatinscotland · 21/03/2008 20:25

great name for a cat!

CocoDeBearisCocoDeBear · 21/03/2008 20:23

When i read the name out of the Times the other day the first thing DH said was 'isn't that a word for ladybits'. I'd never heard of it. Sounds like a prossie to me though, eg Sugar etc. Nice but strumpetty.

spudballoo · 21/03/2008 20:21

That's ghastly. My first cat was called Tuppence...because she was in a right old mess when a newly born kitten and the farmer's wife said, 'Oh I can't be bothered to name that one, she's not worth tuppence'. so that was her name. [random] lived to the grand old age of 20 however [/random]

Agree that it's a fanjo name.

ChickenSoupDragon · 21/03/2008 20:19

Tuppence was our family word for Poo.

Nbg · 21/03/2008 20:19

UK Birth Announcments?

Eh?

expatinscotland · 21/03/2008 20:18

It's DUMB, people.

CocoDeBearisCocoDeBear · 21/03/2008 20:17

What a relief to find I'm not the only person who scours the birth announcements.

vInTaGeVioLeT · 21/03/2008 10:04

i think tuppence is a sweet name. . . .

nether the less - it is a name for a fanjo round here too!![devon]

vInTaGeVioLeT · 21/03/2008 10:04

i think tuppence is a sweet name. . . .

nether the less - it is a name for a fanjo round here too!![devon]

MrsMattie · 21/03/2008 09:43

Utterly ridiculous name.

glazedkremedonuts · 21/03/2008 09:42

I googled fanjo name and chortle chorle rofl found this a group on myspace called that man fanjo. That Man Fanjo consists of Mark Fannin. He has a guitar, and he has a voice.`. I doubt he has a fanjo. A man who calls himself Fanjo.

Ii was sort of hoping for someone called fanjo, or Fanny-jo...but no, thank goodness.

I cant link....sorry, no idea how to...

I want to hate the name tuppence Harmony....but I cant bring myself to not like it. She will have to live up to a name like that though. Kind of reminds me of the fanjo farting threads, which is kind of unfortunate...

cece · 21/03/2008 09:31

We use Tuppence for fanjo too (Devon)

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MadameCh0let · 20/03/2008 14:02

We don't even have vaginas where I come, never mind naming them!! So brazen, such sinners.

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MadamePlatypus · 19/03/2008 20:40

Never thought tuppence meant anything more than 2p, but then I have always referred to a 'front bottom' as a vagina. We call a vagina a vagina where I come from. (SW London)

Boco · 19/03/2008 20:30

Tuppence Harmony kind of means Happy Fanjo. Which would be quite a nice name too.

lucy5 · 19/03/2008 20:29

I know a tuppence and she is always called Tuppy. It always reminds me of tupping

Disenchanted · 19/03/2008 20:29

I can't believe some people don't know a tuppence is a fanjo, lol.

And to call your child it, oh its just awful!

Its like calling your son sammyscrotum or something.

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