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Ann-Harrod

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HollyCanDoAnything · 28/04/2024 21:45

I used to work with a lady who gave her daughter this name. Had never hear it before, or since, and always wondered if she'd just made it up to try to sound "posh"

Anyone ever come across this before?

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alloweraoway · 28/04/2024 23:43

KnickerlessParsons · 28/04/2024 23:29

my friends pronounce it Ann Harrod

Well they pronounce it wrong then.

For starters, Angharad has an -ad at the end and Harrod ends in -od.
Angharad also has a g in it.

It is their name, they are pronoucing it right!

FourSteeples · 28/04/2024 23:33

Wisenotboring · 28/04/2024 21:53

I think it might be an incorrect version of anghared in the same way that some people call their child Shivaughn or neeve

Yes, exactly.

KnickerlessParsons · 28/04/2024 23:29

my friends pronounce it Ann Harrod

Well they pronounce it wrong then.

For starters, Angharad has an -ad at the end and Harrod ends in -od.
Angharad also has a g in it.

maudelovesharold · 28/04/2024 23:23

HollyCanDoAnything · 28/04/2024 22:21

@TheCatIsInCharge i know post partum brain fog is a thing, but if you can't remember how to spell your own child's name by the time they start school .......

I think TheCat may have meant your colleague spelt it ‘wrong’ from the get-go. Heard Angharad, decided what a lovely name it would be for her baby, but thought it was spelt Ann-Harrod!

Edited for one ‘the’ too many!

alloweraoway · 28/04/2024 23:21

KnickerlessParsons · 28/04/2024 23:12

It's Angharad, but it's not pronounced Ann-Harrod!

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my friends pronounce it Ann Harrod

TeabySea · 28/04/2024 23:18

HollyCanDoAnything · 28/04/2024 21:52

No, definitely not Angharad. I love that name. But i saw it written down and it was spelt the same way as the shop, which is why i wondered if it was some weird kind of snobbery.

She might be related to the woman who had a baby on the same ward as me - she wanted to name her daughter after her mother, but didn't know how to spell Fiona, and started F-E-E-Y...

SeanBeansMealDeal · 28/04/2024 23:16

Jackamo just makes me think of that website that sells clothes for more amply-proportioned men - the one that used to advertise on the telly all the time with Johnny Vegas.

KnickerlessParsons · 28/04/2024 23:12

MyLovelyPurse · 28/04/2024 21:48

It's Angharad, which is pronounced Ann Harrod

It's Angharad, but it's not pronounced Ann-Harrod!

Heatedblanky · 28/04/2024 23:09

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alloweraoway · 28/04/2024 23:06

SemperIdem · 28/04/2024 22:17

But it’s already been anglicised from Hebrew, to Jacob?

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and? Now the Italian version is being anglicised. I dont understand why anyone things this is strange or unusual, this is how we get names!

BingoMarieHeeler · 28/04/2024 22:24

Ann. Harrod.

Ann-Harrod??? Like Harrods???

Hyacinth Bucket eat your heart out!!

Toddlerteaplease · 28/04/2024 22:23

It's a lovely name.

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HollyCanDoAnything · 28/04/2024 22:21

@TheCatIsInCharge i know post partum brain fog is a thing, but if you can't remember how to spell your own child's name by the time they start school .......

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SemperIdem · 28/04/2024 22:17

alloweraoway · 28/04/2024 22:12

it is just anglicising the spelling, we have been doing that to names for millenia

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But it’s already been anglicised from Hebrew, to Jacob?

TheCatIsInCharge · 28/04/2024 22:16

HollyCanDoAnything · 28/04/2024 21:52

No, definitely not Angharad. I love that name. But i saw it written down and it was spelt the same way as the shop, which is why i wondered if it was some weird kind of snobbery.

Maybe she just spelled it wong?

ViscountessMelbourne · 28/04/2024 22:13

alloweraoway · 28/04/2024 22:08

again, nothing unusual. This is a european version of Jacob. To an italian or Spanish person, Jacob probably sounds bizaare

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Italians would call their boy Giacomo. Not Jackamo.

alloweraoway · 28/04/2024 22:12

DeleteIfNotAloud · 28/04/2024 22:11

I'm perfectly aware of the Italian name Giacomo, and wouldn't find that bizarre at all.

Spelling it Jackamo however, is...not quite the same thing.

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it is just anglicising the spelling, we have been doing that to names for millenia

DeleteIfNotAloud · 28/04/2024 22:11

alloweraoway · 28/04/2024 22:08

again, nothing unusual. This is a european version of Jacob. To an italian or Spanish person, Jacob probably sounds bizaare

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I'm perfectly aware of the Italian name Giacomo, and wouldn't find that bizarre at all.

Spelling it Jackamo however, is...not quite the same thing.

alloweraoway · 28/04/2024 22:08

DeleteIfNotAloud · 28/04/2024 21:58

OMG I knew a kid at a Steiner kindergarten called Jackamo! The place was chocka with bizarrely named kids though so it didn't really stand out.

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again, nothing unusual. This is a european version of Jacob. To an italian or Spanish person, Jacob probably sounds bizaare

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HollyCanDoAnything · 28/04/2024 22:06

Oh yes, Rudolph Steiner schools. We had one of those in our village when i was young. I think there was a lot of suspicion amongst our parents towards that school. We were discouraged from having anything to do with the kids who went there. It didn't seem fair as they always seemed really polite and nice.

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HollyCanDoAnything · 28/04/2024 21:59

This was in the early eighties, when people generally used "real names" for their kids. Very unusual at the time to come across something like that. That's why it's stuck in my mind for so long.

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DeleteIfNotAloud · 28/04/2024 21:58

MrsCreek · 28/04/2024 21:55

Sounds like someone I know who named their kid "Jackamo"

OMG I knew a kid at a Steiner kindergarten called Jackamo! The place was chocka with bizarrely named kids though so it didn't really stand out.

dreadisabaddog · 28/04/2024 21:58

Omg Jesus wept. That's a yoo-nique spelling for sure!

WinterMorn · 28/04/2024 21:55

Oh come on…😂😂😂😂

MrsCreek · 28/04/2024 21:55

Sounds like someone I know who named their kid "Jackamo"

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