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Xanadu?

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heyitisthegirls · 13/06/2024 11:22

Will people have trouble spelling this in the UK?

I've been thinking of it for a boy but not sure if people will endlessly try and spell it as 'Zanadoo'

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HappiestSleeping · 13/06/2024 19:46

Spirallingdownwards · 13/06/2024 19:36

Trying to work out if this was serious or taking the piss.

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Which bit?

ilovechocbiscitsz · 13/06/2024 19:45

Now you are here in Xanadu. Xanadu ooooooooh ooooooh. I love that film lol

Spirallingdownwards · 13/06/2024 19:36

HappiestSleeping · 13/06/2024 15:35

Jeff is listed as the sole song writer on the credits for the film one. Don't know about the Legend of Xanadu by Dave Dee, Dozy etc. That's a little before my time.

Jeff says it's his worst song too.

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Trying to work out if this was serious or taking the piss.

Notellinganyone · 13/06/2024 19:33

eddiemairswife · 13/06/2024 11:58

Do you live in a stately pleasure drome?

Perhaps OP should go for Kubla Khan - KK for short? Or Alph?

AlwaysTheRenegade · 13/06/2024 19:33

It sounds like a fabulous pre-op sedative 😊

filka · 13/06/2024 19:21

Nevercloserfortherestofourlives · 13/06/2024 11:55

Olivia Newton John I think you’ll find. 😀

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published 1816

Kubla Khan

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

Ponderingwindow · 13/06/2024 19:07

I’m going to have that song stuck in my head all day now.

PyongyangKipperbang · 13/06/2024 19:05

It was a film, Gene Kelly's last role, with muses, Gods and all sorts in it. ONJ is a muse if memory serves and falls in love with a mortal.

If you look for it on YouTube, the video starts with Gene Kelly on roller skates leading a load of rollerdancers around the night club!

The film was widely slated at the time but now has something of a cult following. Personally I think its crap but love the soundtrack as am a HUGE ELO fan!

It means a luxurious exotic place.

FFSWherearemyglasses · 13/06/2024 18:37

Fucking love this board - it’s never not funny 🤣

“Xanadont” 🤣🤣 genius

RoobarbAndMustard · 13/06/2024 18:33

As John McEnroe used to say....You cannot be serious!
Just don't it's ridiculous. Stop trying to be Younique.

Favouritefruits · 13/06/2024 18:32

as soon as a saw that name I couldn’t help singing agadoo!

Xanadu du du du, push pineapples, shake the tree…..

no you can give a child that name

OhYoko · 13/06/2024 18:30

potkettleblock · 13/06/2024 11:46

Xanadont

Yeah, this.

DumpedByText · 13/06/2024 18:28

Oh dear, please don't call your child that name. I don't understand the need to go for wild out there names, just choose something normal!

TheaBrandt · 13/06/2024 18:25

Fgs thought mumsnet higher brow than this! Yes it’s an Olivia Newton John song but it’s a Greek myth land of wonder or something

AyrshireTryer · 13/06/2024 18:05

Sounds fine Olivia.
Now that I'm here
Now that you're near

RuthW · 13/06/2024 17:56

Katiesaidthat · 13/06/2024 11:49

Uuuuhm, is it after the Abba song? I have seen disco bars and strip clubs with that name. It is a slightly weird choice?

Not Abba. It was Olivia Newton John.

You can't call a child that!

whyhavetheygotsomany · 13/06/2024 17:56

I love the song

Alltheyearround · 13/06/2024 17:54

Lifeinlists · 13/06/2024 17:35

I thought it was Agadoo?

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It is. But it just leapt into my mind as soon as I said Xanadu to myself.

Jessieshome · 13/06/2024 17:47

This has to have been a joke surely? Surely? Xanadu? Xanadu?! Have you really never heard the song? And I thought Persephone and Ptolemy were awful/never quite sure if people are joking or not!

oakleaffy · 13/06/2024 17:42

It’s from Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree”
As a name for a child it’s plain silly!

kanet · 13/06/2024 17:37

Yes, people in the UK will have trouble spelling it.

Lifeinlists · 13/06/2024 17:35

Alltheyearround · 13/06/2024 17:23

Oh you beat me to it. Great minds/fools.

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I thought it was Agadoo?

Alltheyearround · 13/06/2024 17:23

loropianalover · 13/06/2024 15:54

Xanadududu push pineapple shake the tree!

Oh you beat me to it. Great minds/fools.

Alltheyearround · 13/06/2024 17:22

Xanadu du du push pineapple, shake the tree...

OP you have brought back the trauma of 80's childrens' parties.