To like the name Maryvonne?

[rupertina]

I read it in a Brookner novel and rather like it?

Do you think it's a nice name?

[rupertina]

It is a French name. Maryvonne would be in her 70s now, from a working-class background

Ain't nothing wrong with that

[Chesterfieldsofa]

Maryvonne would be in her 70s now, from a working-class background

I thought she'd be in a trailer park in Alabama.

[NotSureThisIsWhatIWant]

I second the trailer park in Alabama...

[FrumpyTrumpy]

I'm afraid it immediately gave me a mental image of a Trump-supporting redneck from Hicksville, West Virginia.


So glad we don't have ridiculous names in this country. Or people who voted to listen to Farage and his bus.

[FrumpyTrumpy]

I second the trailer park in Alabama...

Oh I get it. So because you'd get deleted for being a twat if you said "council estate in Jaywick" you make fun of poor people in other countries. Right.

[SardineJam]

I know a Maryvonne, she is French and a very nice lady

[IndigoSpritz]

It sounds like a model of caravan.

[KatherinaMinola]

I like it. It's glamorous.

Jean Rhys's daughter was called Maryvonne.

(What is it with all the old-school French names now though? Sidonie on another thread...)

[wombatsears]

Rubbish, Maryvonne is not a German word, that entry is completely made up.

You're not familiar with Urban Dictionary are you?

[helpmum2003]

Sorry I don't like it - sounds made up and there'll be major spelling issues....

I like Mary. Not made on Yvonne but the 2 separately would be better.

What about Marianne?
Or Mary Anne?
Or Mary Eve?

[Ffiffime]

Dreadful name

[amusedbush]

God, it's a horrible name.

[Twisique]

If you like combined names how about Juliana?

[RoboticMary]

No, it sounds ridiculous!

[Chesterfieldsofa]

So because you'd get deleted for being a twat if you said "council estate in Jaywick" you make fun of poor people in other countries


Oh stop being such a drama llama, nobody is 'getting deleted' it's a stereotype and it's a stereotype for a reason. Any where is Jaywick? I've never heard of it. I hope you're not implying that it's an undesirable place to live, you'll get deleted

[SpoonBlender]

Don't like Mary Yvonne much either, the Y's together make it very clunky to say.

[KatherinaMinola]

Jaywick is the seaside village in Essex that the Republicans used in their "do you want America to look like this" campaign.

[LakieLady]

Jaywick is an area on the outskirts of Clacton, on the Essex coast. It was (possibly still is) the most deprived area in England. Recently, a Republican politician used images of Jaywick to show what would happen if the Democrats got control of Congress.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-46047494

My brother lives in Jaywick. It was the cheapest place in England he could buy a property outright with the funds he had available.

[CrispbuttyNo1]

It sounds very fifties American. The sort of name you would imagine a waitress in a diner to be called in a film.

Evonne or Yvonne is a nice name. I would leave the Mary out of it.

[KindergartenKop]

If you like unique names then use Mary. I bet she'll be the only one in her school and no worries about telling people how to spell it.

[justfloatingpast]

I don't like it at all. Neither do I like the name Yvonne. It's one of those French names that became hugely popular in the UK and Ireland during the 60s and 70s - others being Michelle, Lorraine and Jacqueline. Lovely in France where they have a heritage and are pronounced properly, but just sound dated and a bit cheap out of their natural environment.

But Mary is nice.