Pegasus and Philomena?

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for twin boy and girl...? I appreciate its a bit unusual....

Drat you lot. Now all I want to do is go to North London, find a park at school chucking out time and yell for Charybdis and Shadowfax to get off the swings and come for their Tibetan crocheting lessons and see if it really is true that no one looks round with a wtaf expression or bursts out laughing.

I had my son in north London, and honestly, although I had started to read the Baby Names forum while I was pregnant, it wasn't until I moved out of London to a Midlands village that I understood some of the shrieking about 'unusual names'. From baby stuff I used to go to regularly in London local Surestart, NCT group, coffee mornings, drop-in children's stuff etc I remember babies called Ace, Thiago, Ferdinand, Blessed, Malika, Adaego, Tadeusz, Diletta, Elsie-May, Willow, Soren, Bhadra (just off the top of my head). I think I once met a baby Buzz at a bus-stop with his dad, too.

Where I live now all the under-sevens seem to be called George, Harry, Louis, Amelia/Emelia (or variations like Milly or Mia), Sophie or Imogen, and there are two Harrys and two Harrisons in DS's reception class of 23.

Whereas I live in Yorkshire and there are plenty of unusually named children in the local playgrounds.

Pegasus???? 🐴 Whinny.

I live in an area full of Kayden, Kaylan, Kavan, Kayleigh, Keeley and Byron.

I suspect if I tried calling a child Charybdis around here the local WI would rough music me.

I'd expect that, Broomstick. I was a bit taken aback by what was considered 'unusual' here. It's not even about people wanting to choose an unusual name, it's people of different ethnicities giving their children names that are the Sophie and John of their cultures -- e.g., my son has an Irish name which bog-standard in Ireland but very unusual in the UK. The Diletta, Thiago and Blessed I knew in London just had names from their parents' culture, not some north London desire to be zany.

I'm finding myself strangely attracted to Charybdis. And his twin Scylla.

The unusual names are around 50% normal-but-foreign and 50% deliberately unusual. So one of the Elektras is Greek and one has parents who like less usual classical names.

Persephone and Perseus instead??

Not Pegasus...

The unusual names are around 50% normal-but-foreign and 50% deliberately unusual. So one of the Elektras is Greek and one has parents who like less usual classical names

And do people respond differently to the Greek Elektra to the English-with-parents-who-like-the-Oresteia Elektra?

Hector had a very grim ending indeed - heels slit, Ajax's girdle passed through them and his body dragged behind Achilles' chariot. And the Achilles continues to abuse the body for several days.
It's a particularly grisly death/aftermath.

Yes - but he himself didn't spend as much time raping/murdering innocent people as Apollo, which has been suggested as an alternative! Hector was quite nice, really.

I don't think the casual observer would be able to tell which Elektra was which.

Hector had a very grim ending indeed - heels slit, Ajax's girdle passed through them and his body dragged behind Achilles' chariot. And the Achilles continues to abuse the body for several days. It's a particularly grisly death/aftermath

To be fair, which one of us hasn't done that at some point or other in our lives?

Tristan and Isolde?

Too old to have another but if I were to & a boy - John it would be. Much underrated in my book

I recently met a 3-year-old Michael. I honestly did a double-take when I saw the name written down!

Speak for yourself, squoosh. Personally, I'm all about giving people garments stained with poisonous centaur blood.

That was an accident. Anyway it only happened the once.

I think I once met a baby Buzz at a bus-stop with his dad, too

Are you sure he wasn't from up my way and referring to his chosen mode of transport?

There were 4 boys called Pegasus in my year at school.
Very popular at Hogwarts

Ok...so I thought this was a wind up but obvs not!

Bwahahaha!!

Sorry, this made my day... Peggy and Phil

Personally, I'm all about giving people garments stained with poisonous centaur blood.

Ah see that would be a bit subtle for me. At least if I tie someone to the back of my chariot and then take off at top speed everyone knows where they stand

Please don't call your child Pegasus.

Well of course you're in north London.
Don't call him Pegasus, he may have to leave London sometimes AND HE'LL LOOK LIKE A TWAT.

NC4, I don't think so -- Baby Buzz's dad was an early adopter of the hipster man-bun, and it's conceivable he'd never actually left Shoreditch.

Baby Buzz would be five or six now, and is probably insisting on being addressed as Captain America.