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Nelly May Lois

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randomimposter · 15/01/2010 22:14

sister of Woody.

Thoughts on combo of Woody and Nelly...?

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helenwombat · 18/01/2010 05:26

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soda1234 · 18/01/2010 00:01

Nell/Nelly short for Helena is also lovely

Jojay · 17/01/2010 08:21

You can get away with Woody if the full name is Edward, IMHO.

nooka · 17/01/2010 07:38

Woodrow and Eleanor I hope! Eleanor is lovely.

William and Rosanna would be great. My two have non matching proper names that have become "ie/y" shortenings most of the time, but are different enough not to sound like a matching pair. Billy and Milly for example would not be so good.

JamesandHisFlamingSword · 17/01/2010 00:05

Hear hear PommePoire.

Ms Sharpe - there are lots of other threads if you aren't interested in Baby Names. AIBU would welcome you, I am sure

Northernlurker · 16/01/2010 23:57

I quite like it. Wouldn't use it myself but it's perfectly ok.

Susansharp - you will find many people round here do have jobs. They just aren't at work 24 hours a day!

gagamama · 16/01/2010 23:41

With 'Woody' I could never get past the Toy Story visuals, and now with 'Nelly' I can't get past the elephant thing. Did they intentionally name their kids after cartoon characters?!

I think Nelly will come in for marginally less teasing than poor Woody in years to come though.

PommePoire · 16/01/2010 23:35

jollster Aw shucks. StewieGriffinsMom was right.

Lilyloo · 16/01/2010 21:20

I prefer Nell , i have two dc's with y ending names

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randomimposter · 16/01/2010 21:17

pommepoire will you marry me...

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PommePoire · 16/01/2010 21:10

Right, just in case Ms SS (nice initials) isn't a troll...

  1. This is the 'Baby Name' discussion board. So, the people on here are discussing babies' names. Not whatever you would deem to be a worthy way of spending time.

  2. The OP has made it very clear that her interest in what Zoe Ball and Norman Cook have chosen to name their daughter, is due to the fact that she may, one day, want to name a future daughter of her own with a name similar in sound to that of her DS, just as they have done.

3)The OP has been pretty good natured about your snidey comments, perhaps, because she is more than aware that her post is a light-hearted ponder on the way siblings' names sound when you say them in the same sentence. She is not pretending that this is a topic for major debate.

(PommePoire stomps off, shaking her head at some people's sense of superiority.)

Pausing only to add that Billy and Rosy go very well together. And mad as they are, so do Woody and Nelly.

biglips · 16/01/2010 20:53

my nickname is Nellie as due to my name Helen

StewieGriffinsMom · 16/01/2010 20:50

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MrsMattie · 16/01/2010 20:47

troll alert!

susansharpe · 16/01/2010 20:46

sure is beneath me! but just because something is beneath you, it doesn't mean that you can't comment on it!

susansharpe · 16/01/2010 20:40

tired ?is that the best you can do ? oh please take your passive aggressive insults elsewhere and grow up or think of a better way to slag me off. I am on this site because I have always joked with my friends how daft its members are and give women a bad name, especially mums, and guess what ? you have just proved my point within less than half an hour of me joining!

MrsMattie · 16/01/2010 20:39

It's a lovely name. Nell is such a cool name, I wanted it for DD but DH thought I was loony.

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randomimposter · 16/01/2010 20:21

oooooo, someone's tired susansharpe

why bother to comment if it's SO beneath you?

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noddyholder · 16/01/2010 20:15

I think its sweet

susansharpe · 16/01/2010 20:13

thoughts on combo of woody and nelly ? are you for real ? who cares what they call their kids ? do you think that they care that you care about the 'combo of woody and nelly' ? for goodness' sake, go back to work or get a job or do something sensible.

everlong · 16/01/2010 19:28

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weegiemum · 16/01/2010 17:33

I don't know where you are but in Scotland Nell or Nellie is a nn for Helen.

Lois? Too Superman for me!

LouMacca · 16/01/2010 17:31

lol @ reikizen.

TBH Nelly is exactly the kind of name I would have expected Zoe to use. Its ok but Nell sounds much better.

MaggieNilAonSneachta · 16/01/2010 17:07

Eleanor is much nicer imo

MaggieNilAonSneachta · 16/01/2010 17:05

jolister, billy and annie or billy and Rosie is lovely.

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