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Queenie! *Yay or Nay?)

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BlackadderWentForthToMultiply · 22/08/2011 01:47

Our daughter (ETA 3+ months) I'd like to call her Queenie but my DW may have some other ideas. persuasive arguments for and against please! cheers.

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hester · 22/08/2011 13:03

Are you North London Jewish, OP?

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cookielove · 22/08/2011 13:07

I don't mind it, but after the thread with the shire horse on her called queenie, it makes me think it of as a pet name

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BlackadderWentForthToMultiply · 22/08/2011 19:13

thumbwitch Regina/Vagina :)

hester no i'm South London Muslim. My DW is North London Jewish. (we both live just outside of London now mind. why? does it show a little? was it scarlett that gave it away?

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TillyIpswitch · 22/08/2011 19:38

OP - can I interest you in Bernard?

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BlackadderWentForthToMultiply · 22/08/2011 19:40

Bernard? for a girl?

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hester · 22/08/2011 19:43

Well... Queenie, Miriam, Shelly... you're joining the tribe, gel

(I hope I'm allowed to say that... I'm Jewish-ish meself)

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cakeismysaviour · 22/08/2011 20:23

Nay for me I'm afraid.

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Bandwithering · 22/08/2011 22:04

NO WAY ON EARTH YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING NO WAY NO WAY NO WAY NO WAY NO WAY ON EARTH YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING NO WAY NO WAY NO WAY NO WAY NO WAY ON EARTH YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING NO WAY NO WAY NO WAY NO WAY NO WAY ON EARTH YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING NO WAY NO WAY NO WAY NO WAY

JMVHO

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Bandwithering · 22/08/2011 22:08

Paloma is lovely.

What about Dulcie, Lois, Mabel, Hazel, Beryl, Meryl. all kind of in the same age bracket as Queenie but not so totally minging.

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Thumbwitch · 23/08/2011 00:35

Blackadder - come ON!!! the reference is to Nursey! She's called Bernard

hester - OP is a man, not a gel.

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BlackadderWentForthToMultiply · 23/08/2011 02:34

Oh yeah! bernard! i have the box set someplace we should dig it out for an evenings entertainment. in my defence: sleep has not been a major part of my life lately.

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jabberwocky · 23/08/2011 02:40

I have heard of a person named Queenie but really still feel it is more appropriate for a pet.

Miriam - love it
Clementine - not really
Grace - love it
Ella - love it
Beatrice - not so much
Scarlet - like it
Sophia - love it
Shefali - no
Shelly - meh

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BlackadderWentForthToMultiply · 23/08/2011 02:44

i just realised that miriam can be shortened to mimsy! yayeah!

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hester · 23/08/2011 16:22

Oh yes! Sorry about the sex change, OP.

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FellatioNelson · 23/08/2011 17:31

Clemenetine is BEEEoootiful.

Shelley - no! It's like Kelly and Nicola and Mandy and Elaine. Just too 70's. We are not ready to go back there yet.

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hester · 23/08/2011 17:34

I'm sorry, Fellatio, but you are wrong. Clementine is ghastly - I just don't get why so many people love it.

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FellatioNelson · 23/08/2011 18:05

I have always loved it throughout all three PGs and my youngest is 12. But they are all boys so I never got to put my money where my mouth is. Plus my surname is Cl...so it would have been crap anyway.

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AKissIsNotAContract · 24/08/2011 13:48

If you like Mimsy then how about Fanny?

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muminthemiddle · 24/08/2011 16:25

No don't like it.

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mymumdom · 24/08/2011 16:30

If you want a 'Q' name, how about Quona? This is my sisters name and she's spent her whole life having to spell it for people . My mother tells everyone it's gaelic for 'little dove' but I've never been able to find evidence of this.

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IHeartKingThistle · 24/08/2011 16:38

Knew a Corrinne who was known as Queenie, no idea why. Wouldn't use it as the 'proper' name myself, I don't think. Up to you though!

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lilbreeze · 24/08/2011 16:41

Queenie is the name of one of the main characters in Small Island by Andrea Levy. Here's a passage explaining how she was named:

I was christened Victoria Buxton. My mother had wanted me to be christened Queenie but the vicar had said, "No, Mrs Buxton, I'm afraid Queenie is a common name."

"Common!" my mother had replied. "How can it be common? It's a queen's name." The vicar had then given an impromptu sermon which my mother, father and their gathered guests had to listen to as they stood round the stone font in our bleak local church. The vicar went on at length about monarchs having proper names like Edward, George, Elizabeth while everyone, dressed in their pinching church-best shoes began to shift from foot to foot and stifle yawns behind their scrubbed hands. "Take our late queen," the vicar finally explained, "her name, Mrs Buxton, was not queen but Victoria."

So that was how - one thundery August day in a church near Mansfield, dressed in a handed down white-starched christening gown that wouldn't do up at the neck - I, the first born child of Wilfred and Lillie Buxton, came to be christened Victoria yet called forever Queenie.

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kelly2000 · 24/08/2011 17:23

Fine as a nn, but i do not think you child will thank-you for it later as a full name.

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PineCones · 25/08/2011 22:13

nope, sorry.

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EmmaNicole · 31/08/2011 08:15

I love Queenie..it was on my list (as was Dolly - which is my favourite) but my DH put his foot down - we eventually agreed on Beatrice and I love it - we call her Bea-Bea. Good luck with choosing, it's really hard but I would advise to go for something a bit different as you'll find loads of Evie, Ellie, and Isobels when you go to the play groups.