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Thisbe

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Spamfaced · 10/12/2015 16:56

I read this in Sarah Dessen's book and it's the baby's name. I love it!

It's also in Midsummers Night's Dream.

Is it too out there or could it be a grower?

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Lizziedripping1 · 10/12/2015 16:58

Love it...love it

AuntieStella · 10/12/2015 17:00

I kind of like it (would fit a family of Shakespearian names best, I think).

Possibly a lifetime of Bottom jokes ahead, though.

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Spamfaced · 10/12/2015 17:02

Literary jokes are acceptable though surely

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BugritAndTidyup · 10/12/2015 17:03

Mmm, I'm not sure... I can't help but read it with a piratical accent, I'm afraid.

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Spamfaced · 10/12/2015 17:03

There are some Thisbes when I checked on FB so not too out there. Is it too tragic though?

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ShootTheMoon · 10/12/2015 17:12

It's not awful but it sounds a bit lispy to me. It's also from Ovid - Pyramus & Thisbe - and is tragic as you say.

Am amused at bugrot's piratical comment too and can't stop hearing it that way now!

TempsPerdu · 10/12/2015 17:16

I knew a vair posh one at university - everyone (including tutors) assumed she was called Frisbee. Don't hate it, but suspect the owner would be in for a lifetime of puzzled looks!

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Spamfaced · 10/12/2015 18:30

Temps did she like her name?

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celtictoast · 10/12/2015 19:29

Sorry but I don't really like it.

peacefuleasyfeeling · 10/12/2015 20:00

It was on my list for DD2 and I love it. In the end it lost out to a name which wouldn't suffer so being spoken in DP's estuary twang (which includes pronouncing soft "th" sounds as "f"; Ethel lost out for the same reason). Some might say she had a lucky escape Grin

RiverTam · 10/12/2015 20:05

I quite like it. It does come across as being very very posh, though, kind of posh eccentric. No-one would bat an eyelid at DD's school which is fairly liberal-lefty arty-farty middle-class Grin.

YakTriangle · 10/12/2015 20:18

I think it's awful, sorry. Unless you are incredibly posh and the child will never have to mix with anyone who isn't incredibly posh or ever be in any situation where people might mock her.

ChippyOikInTinsel · 10/12/2015 20:22

Dreadful.

timelytess · 10/12/2015 20:24

Frisbee kills it.

Moomazoo · 10/12/2015 22:42

Thisbe a terrible name!!!!

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TempsPerdu · 11/12/2015 09:55

Spam She saw the funny side, and was so posh it didn't really matter what anyone else thought - her social circle included lots of Mungos and Electras, so Thisbe was fairly standard! Outside of that posh arty circle though I'd say it's a no-no.

StrawberryTeaLeaf · 11/12/2015 09:57

Possibly a lifetime of Bottom jokes ahead, though.

Literary jokes are acceptable though surely

Grin

I'm not sure the cultured nature of the Bottom jokes will be any solace to a 13 year old hearing it for the 2000th time, TBH.

Plus the frisbee thing Hmm

ConesOfDunshire · 11/12/2015 13:49

Great, as long as you don't live in London. Thisbe is pretty and quirky. Fizz-bee, not so much.

RiverTam · 11/12/2015 13:54

I live in London Confused. I can pronounce Thisbe. Should people in London not call their DC Theo, or Catherine or any other name with a 'th' in it?

mydogeatsnutstoo · 11/12/2015 13:59

I think it is the name of one of cinderella's ugly sisters in some recent renditions - Thisbe and Drizella in the book we have. This would put me off, along with other things mentioned.

I did not read as This be but now it has been pointed out I can only see it like this! Bit like Ianthe which I used to like but after a thread on it can only see as Ian the .

SoWhite · 11/12/2015 19:12

Lispy frisbee, yep.

maybebabybee · 11/12/2015 19:15

This is a joke right? That is an awful name Confused

Lottiedaydreambeliever2014 · 12/12/2015 11:40

Never heard of it. I would definitely have to ask twice what someone's name is if there said that. With no knowledge of it I wouldn't assume it was posh, just quite random.