Mary-Jane

[tummytickler]

This is not terribly urgent, as I am only ttc, and after a few miscarriages over the last 18 months we have been mulling over names to keep our spirits up

This is baby 5 (or will be) so likely to be the last, unless I get my way and get a 6 too (unlikely!), and I have so many names i want to use,

We both like Mary and Jane as possibilities (along with many others including Priscilla, Thisbe, Gloria, Susan, Angela, Thora)

I know hyphenated names are frowned upon on mn, and actually I am not a big fan, but is Mary-Jane more acceptable?
I love both names, but can't make up my mind whether hyphenating them is rubbish, and I prefer just Mary or Jane as a name on it's own.

I just think of aa milne so it's cute to me {innocent]

I cannot believe ANYBODY refers to their "lady bits" (gag) as Mary-Jane, so I am assuming your post to that effect is a joke.

Pot for me too. If I came accross a kid with that name I'd wonder if the parents were crusties and trying to be ironic

Shoes
Drugs
Spiderman
in that order.

I love the name Mary, but the -Jane bit ruins it for me.

Oh dear - I had no idea about the drug connection! I must live in a bubble! Maybe we should choose between Mary or Jane (or one of the others!)
Mary-Jane is definately scrapped now!

It's just a translation though, isn't it - 'marijuana' is similar to the Spanish version of Mary Jane. It really wouldn't bother me in the slightest. It's still pretty, and it's not as though you're proposing to call her Weed or Skunk.

I rather like it, but it reminds me of A.A. Milne- "what's the matter with Mary-Jane? It's lovely rice pudding for dinner again!"

oh boo tummytickler, you've walked away from that one too easily

No, Jane - I've had this conversation at work and several of my older colleagues remember it being called that - I dont use it now, but it was certainly around when I was a child and that connotation is very real in my mind

I'm not suprised the mum corrects you though - dd has a similar hyphenated name and no-one ever calls her by the first bit - and I'd correct them straight away if they did - it just isn't her name. I can't explain why but it's somehow not the same as using a standard diminutive.

I am never known by only the first half of my hyphenated name, never. Sometimes the initials but never just either of the two names.