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Genuinely considering Cinderella

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muffinmaclay · 15/05/2008 23:12

my 2 dd's love the disney princesses - am I suffering from over-exposure do you think? as the name Cinderella now seems quite an acceptable option for a girl - shortened to Cindy or Ella.

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WombFor1More · 23/05/2008 08:09

Yes hmm, well not to sure about that one! Although my friends baby is called Daisyella which always makes me think of Cinderella

Califrau · 23/05/2008 00:31

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scottishmummy · 23/05/2008 00:25

Bleugh!i like shrek (and he is scottish) but wouldn't call the wean shrek

calm down

step back from the dvd

Janni · 23/05/2008 00:19

Am loving the shoe shop scene.

Would you take one of her old shoes and ask them to match it?

Sallyre · 20/05/2008 20:22

My friend's daughter is Roxabella which I love....

JaneHH · 20/05/2008 20:14

A friend's mum had Cinderella as one of her middle names. The shame when she had to say her full name as a grown woman in her 50s in the bank / post office with a whole queue of people behind her...

kittywise · 20/05/2008 19:54

you are barking

TsarChasm · 20/05/2008 19:48

Can you imagine the scene in Clarks when you go to buy shoes?

Janni · 20/05/2008 19:46

On the vague offchance that this is a serious proposition...

Do NOT, under any circumstances, call your baby Cinderella. No ifs, no buts, no maybes. It would be tantamount to child abuse.

Turniphead1 · 20/05/2008 19:42

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SweetieDarling · 20/05/2008 19:30

Well I like it. It's pretty. She needn't use the full name when she is old enough to choose. She can be Cindy or Ella which are both very pretty. And for the record, Cindy would not be the same as the doll as the doll is spelt Sindy.

Lucinda Ella is a really good alternative though ElizabethBeresford, at least you have come up with a useful suggestion for the OP.

PS I like Snow White as well. And I'd have thought the fact the little girl is Chinese would have made it work more, not less.

DarthVader · 20/05/2008 18:58

This name will make her a laughing stock all her life

Grumpy or Dozy are not much worse!

ButterflyBessie · 20/05/2008 18:50

Just call her ugley - after the fruit, why fuck about

Squirdle · 20/05/2008 18:49

It's a great name...for a rabbit, but a girl! And she is 14!

ElizabethBeresford · 20/05/2008 16:45

If you're serious, what about Cynthia Stella or Lucinda Ella.

What happens when little Cinderella grows up and is normal looking and works in a bank and is exhausted looking after her three hyperactive children. Cinderella is not going to work unless she marries I don't know.... the Prince of Muldoviadom.

belgo · 20/05/2008 15:20

Our rabbit is called Snow White. DD1 named it.

Frexylady · 20/05/2008 15:19

Sleeping Beauty's name was Aurora which is quite pretty (but Cinderella's a baaaaaad idea - sorry!!).

And if you like film names like Aurora, you could try Aurelia (character in Love Actually)...

Squirdle · 19/05/2008 10:26

Well, my sons friends friend is called Snow White! Really!! And she is chinese or something, so it really doesn't work!

I think I shall name my next son Pinnochio Lightening McQueen.....

merryberry · 19/05/2008 10:17

wondering what surname that goes with cinderella is.

wouldn't do it myself. sure they love it all now, but it won't be so loved later on in life

Weegiemum · 19/05/2008 09:51

She has just also suggested that when she gets married her husband would have to be Prince Charming!

Weegiemum · 19/05/2008 09:51

Just ran this past my dd1 (8) - off school.

"It would be a bit silly, wouldn't it"

... thinks ...

"would her sisters be the ugly sisters ?"

mind you, this is the girl who's sister, at age 3, heard a Mum yelling "Nooo-aaaah" and said "that boy musta gotta big boat".

Amandella · 19/05/2008 09:43

I have an "Ella" and I love it - please stick to that - poor poor child who gets a ridiculous name like Cinderella will be a complete laughing stock all her life. Come on now, you can't be serious???

TinkerbellesMum · 19/05/2008 02:09

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Well one day the three Billy Goats Gruff were complaining as usual and saying how tomorrow they would go to the lush green meadow when an old grandfather billy goat laughed:

You Billy Goats Gruff are always saying that you?ll go to the lush green meadow, why don?t you just go there? Perhaps you?re frightened of the Troll.

For beneath the bridge lived a ferocious Troll, and if anyone tried to cross it why he would gobble them up!

I'm not afraid of the Troll, said the big Billy Goat Gruff.

I?m a Troll fol-de-rol, I?m a Troll fol-de-rol, I?m a Troll fol-de-rol and I?ll eat you up for supper.

bozza · 18/05/2008 21:15

Surely a wind-up. No-one could be so lacking in thought process as to not work out that calling the youngest of three girls Cinderella is somewhat tactless and rather asking for inferiority complexes and sibling rivalry on a big scale.

bozza · 18/05/2008 21:15

Surely a wind-up. No-one could be so lacking in thought process as to not work out that calling the youngest of three girls Cinderella is somewhat tactless and rather asking for inferiority complexes and sibling rivalry on a big scale.

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