Archie Harrison Mountbatten -Windsor

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It's not like you all have not been wondering

I'm surprised this thread has been reinstated tbh. Lots of sneering and nasty posts.

I remember a long time ago there was a poster who kept a spreadsheet of why some posters were arseholes.

Anyone else thing they would be firm friends with the spreadsheet keeper...?

I'm surprised too that it's been reinstated as there are some nasty comments Itsnotmesothere

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I don't think the thread would be removed permanently unless there were very serious comments such as threats etc to parents and baby.

Nasty comments, for sure, and sadly very unkind to Megan, who has at the end of the day just become a mum. Shock, horror, she’s played a part in choosing her DS’s name. All right, the names were unexpected, but that’s hardly surprising with an unconventional royal couple.

I quite like the names personally.

I love Meghan! She’s gorgeous, smart and sassy. Why is it an insult to her to think the baby name is a bit lame? The child has a father doesn’t he? He is Harrison after all....

Surely a thread with really nasty, vindictive comments could be removed, even if there weren't threats? Something wrong, if it takes serious threats for a deeply unpleasant thread to be removed.

Agree with Lizzie. I have Meghan in mind while reading this thread and I’m feeling so protective as this is the most unsupportive horrible thing we can do to a new mother, on a forum that is supposed to support mothers...

Yet more, we expect Meghan to become the symbol for feminism and whatnot, yet we are being very sexist with the way we are analysing her and tearing her down.

Yuck

we expect Meghan to become the symbol for feminism and whatnot,

"We" expect WHAT?

I don't think she's a very likely feminist icon.

And, much though some of the comments on the name here have been very unpleasant, I doubt she's reading them, so don't worry too much about her.

I really don't get the bile, and it is bile, that she creates from people who don't have a single clue about her apart from what they read on trash papers etc

She's successful in her own right and fights many causes. She's undoubtedly beautiful and on the face of it they look like they are blissfully in love. She apparently wants to make the world a better place to be by championing causes (not paying lip service, actually actioning and doing)

The only conclusion I can come to is jealousy - on a vastly smaller scale my sister is a model and is jaw dropping gorgeous - the amount of bile she gets off women is horrendous. Thankfully, like Meghan, she knows her own mind and doesn't give a rats.

So many vile posters on MN. I can only imagine how unhappy their own lives are when they take such pleasure from belittling another woman and mother. Pathetic people.

Hopefully it's not short for 'Archibald' they'll call him 'baldie' at school. Especially the posh school he will attend.

@Clawdy yes but unless it's threatening it's just an opinion. People are entitled to an opinion. Mind you I haven't read the whole thread with nasty comments.

It's a rubbish name.

Does the "niceness" of the name depend, perhaps, on the accent of the person who says it?

Where I am, Archie is pronounced "Arch-eh", which to me sounds like nails down a blackboard. Harrison is pronounced "Arrisen", according to my very noisy next door neighbour. So here, those names don't sound very nice. In Meghan or Harry's accents, though, perfectly fine.

I quite like the name overall....the Harrison doesn't quite flow, but Archie Mountbatten-Windsor sounds lovely.

@Seahorseshoe - why is it a rubbish name?

I called my son an Irish name, rarely heard over here. The year after he was born, the film The Omen was released. A lifetime of teasing resulted. Leave this poor woman alone. As long as I don't hear she eats live kittens for breakfast and snacks on puppies etc., she'll remain the inoffensive well-intentioned person she appears to be.

@SuePerbly that’s an interesting point. It’s lovely in a Scottish accent - Arr-chi with a bit of a roll on the R. That said, I doubt H&M are pronouncing it in a Scottish accent

I'm not a fan of the name. It's a bit "Eastenders". But then again, who's business is it. I'm sure lots of people don't like my kids' names

@HBStowe I agree it would be lovely with a Scottish accent. With a Wakefield/Barnsley accent, it would sound awful to me.

I also think it will sound lovely in Meghan's accent. I always have a rhotic accent and I think it sounds nice in mine (if I do say so myself )

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With a Dublin accent it's awful- we stretch our As.

Just to clarify, it's the name Archie I dislike, not the parents! I wish them both every happiness and their little Archie, too.

Well, I think they have been very clever in naming the baby. Archie is practically an anagram of Rachel, which is Meghans real name. So he really is, Rachel and Harrys son!!