What is the name of my DS nursery friend?

[littlemissmoomoo]

DS is 2 nearly 3. His speach is (usually) very articulate. He has never really had "baby talk"

He has been talking about his new friend at nursery. He loves playing with her. He wants her to come for tea. That's great. Except he says her name is Pancake. Which obviously cannot be the case. So what is her name??

Love this thread.

DH came back from the childminder's convinced he'd been told there was a new baby, Kiwi, who'd just started. Not by another child though, by the CM! Now, in the pick-up time meleé something may have gone awry, and they have very Yorkshire accents, soooo...any guesses?

When she was still in reception, DD couldn't get the school lollipop lady's name right and kept greeting her "Hello Trash!"
Trish! Her name is Trish!

i also quite like Pancake-would probably assume kid was black and of recently arrived parents-I met a Senegalese little Nokia once and to be fair it's a nice set of sounds.

Megs4x3

I recently came across 3-year-old twins named Ronnie and Reggie. It’s funny how names can be considered old-fashioned and then come back into vogue.

It's not the question of old fashioned in that instance that is gobsmacking, it's naming your precious newborns after a pair of evil sadistic criminals

toottoot Keeley?

On the subject of peter, I bought a baby named book with an American slant that suggested that traditionally male names could easily be used for girls. I was with them with Jamie etc, less keen on their suggestion of Peter!

That too, @MrsDimmond. Goodness knows how their parents justified it to themselves.

DS made a friend on holiday called Harrogate.
He and Harriet played really nicely

My daughter's lovely reception TA did not deserve to have a Christmas card phonetically addressed to Mrs Buttwuff.

Mrs Butterworth.

I once heard a mum calling after Santa and thought wtf? Years later while chatting to her in a pub at length about her son 'Santa' I finally realised, after several pints, that it was Xander

But it might have been Santa - that is an actual name.

Those of us of a certain age will remember Santa as a character in a fantastic children’s book....

One of my brothers had a teacher called Mrs Grotbags.

Brockbank

@toottootchuggachugga perhaps best not to share assumptions like that.

Strong guess strava will see if you're right...

DD1 has a nursery classmate called 'Medicine'.

Madison, in actual fact.

Tbf DD's name is quite long and flowery and she is universally known by a four-letter shortening (not rude). It's on all her nursery paperwork and I'm fairly sure some other parents don't realise it's not her full name. Same with DD2. So is Pancake actually a well-used nickname?

Anne names are culturally and ethnically encoded and it's ok to acknowledge that; it's not ok to laugh about names/ naming practices because of (at best) ignorance or (at worst) racism. I was expressing the former.

This thread is absolutely brilliant.

When my son was in pre-school, he insisted one of the girls who worked there was called Pizza. She was actually called Lisa

I think baby kiwi may be called baby Keira?

With the accent you describe they wouldn't pronounce it kee-wee but more like Kee-wa.

Or Kiri, you've made me think Zoflora

Oh this is funny. When my 4 year old is asked something he doesn’t know or doesn’t want to reply to, he says “Pancake”. He was recently asked his name by an old lady and he replied “Pancake”. So your son’s friend’s name may not even be anything like pancake maybe...

@KipperTheFrog JICCUP! That is so cute and actually growing on me as a real name... 😊

I know a little Bradley.

My son was going on about his friend Rave which I was a bit confused about. Sure enough he’s called Rafe

I also know a few kids with rather unusual names which are not strange in the context of their cultural backgrounds, as toottoot says.

I went to school with a fair few girls called Peta (not Peter), I think it had a bit of a moment in Australia in the 1970s. In our accent the pronunciation is the same!

There’s a Dutch given name Boy which also had a moment maybe 30 years ago. For a boy, of course. When I meet one I always think of Boy Dugdale the Lecherous Lecturer

Pancake is a fab name
When my daughter worked at a nursery a little boy called her Mrs Sandpit from his first day to his last, we thought that was brilliant (and nothing like her actual name!)

My son said there was a girl called CBeebies. It was actually Phoebe!