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my baby is due october...

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Makingdo · 18/04/2008 08:43

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Makingdo · 19/04/2008 00:24

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Makingdo · 19/04/2008 00:19

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expatinscotland · 19/04/2008 00:16

oh, god, they're calling girls 'Mason' now, too?

wtf, that si such a naffo Yank thing to do!

folks, they were doing this YEARS ago. don't go down that path.

people laugh.

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Makingdo · 19/04/2008 00:09

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expatinscotland · 19/04/2008 00:08

It's just American to me, Janni. And reminds me of a brand of canning jars people use there.

Mason jars.

Janni · 19/04/2008 00:05

I like your girls' name but not your boys'

Mason has a BIG undercurrent attached to it.

expatinscotland · 19/04/2008 00:04

i've no idea how the english would say it, tbh.

i have two girls with Gaelic names already, one Scottish name and one after DH's irish nana, but it's never a bother here and this is where we will always be.

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Makingdo · 19/04/2008 00:03

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expatinscotland · 19/04/2008 00:02

hey, if it suits you, then go for it.

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Makingdo · 19/04/2008 00:02

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Makingdo · 19/04/2008 00:00

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expatinscotland · 19/04/2008 00:00

no, her name was spelt Murron and pronounced differently.

this name is actually irish.

expatinscotland · 18/04/2008 23:58

well, Aitch and MrsM are weegies, so there you go.

but seriously, to me it's just American and therefore meh. but it's your kid.

i always thought Isla was eye-la but others don't.

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Makingdo · 18/04/2008 23:56

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expatinscotland · 18/04/2008 23:34

i've found, too, a person can be in Jockland forever and they may as well have been in London, in some parts .

but again, if you are deadset on a name, then go for it. why start a thread on here and spend time justifying it?

i don't get it.

expatinscotland · 18/04/2008 23:33

ah, i see!

i do think the connotations of Mason and Xavier are more a West Coast thing, tbh, and perhaps a person from the East or the Northern Isles might not be as finely attuned to it.

i'm not sure, though, because my experience of the East Coast is somewhat limited.

it would not occur to me, however, to call my son an 'occupational' name or surname as forename simply because it is an American trend i don't much care for at all.

there are literally thousands of Tanners, Taylors, Masons and the like there. And tens of thousands of Jacksons, McFarlanes, McKenzies, Sawyers and the like.

these trends are at least a decade old there and i see they are crossing the pond with increasing frequency.

AitchTwoOhelicopterfraek · 18/04/2008 22:49

By Makingdo on Fri 18-Apr-08 13:08:04
not to me and i have been n scotland all my life...however not religious in the slightest neither is all my family so i have obviously lead a centered life! however we wil be in bournemouth by the time baby arrives! I ike mason, i think with almost every name there is some horrible attachment, mie is maxine but thats dropped of the scales now thanks to maxine carr, then there is ian...you can find negatives to most names, its wether they are going to be real genuine issues or not.

she does say she's been in jockoland all her life.

expatinscotland · 18/04/2008 22:45

no, the OP isn't Scottish, just has friends and family in Scotland, IIRC.

try again, caller .

expatinscotland · 18/04/2008 22:42

Haaahaa, MrsM! I went in to Port Glasgow yesterday to do a big shop, and on the way home had Clyde on, they were spending hours re-hashing the match.

I thought, 'WHERE do they find these listeners?!'

But hey, you gotta kill time when you're queued for the ferry.

Real Radio is just as bad. It's supposed to be an East Coast station, but they broadcast out of Livingston which is just a Glasgow subdivision.

AitchTwoOhelicopterfraek · 18/04/2008 22:41

i noticed that too, mrsm. i was at school, it feels like yesterday...

MrsMuddle · 18/04/2008 22:38

Expat, "Were you at the game, caller?"

Ha ha! I've had a bottle of wine, and any mention of the Radio Clyde footbal phone in at the late great Jimmy Sanderson makes me ROFL.

I'm really feeling old tonight. That Mason Boyne clip was from 1984. I could have sworn it was the early 90s. Jimmy Sanderson probably died about 25 years ago too.

expatinscotland · 18/04/2008 22:34

i think i did pronounce 'gazza' the italian way. i said it the way you would in spanish .

i'm pretty ignorant, because the first thing i thought when i read 'mason' as a forename was how it would go over here in the West of Scotland.

AitchTwoOhelicopterfraek · 18/04/2008 22:16

oh yes, and you too dragonbutter, you ignorant moron.

Dragonbutter · 18/04/2008 22:15

I am a halfwit

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