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Teasing target?

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HaggisMuncher · 22/09/2017 02:50

Will Flora Margaret as first and middle names be a teasing target? Am thinking of potential for Flora Marge. Am I over thinking? Help!

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SuperBeagle · 22/09/2017 04:24

Virtually no one will know her middle name, so there's no teasing potential.

BeingATwatItsABingThing · 22/09/2017 04:29

Flora Marge? Like margarine? Confused

Misspilly88 · 22/09/2017 04:59

Flora is lovely. No one ever knows your middle name. Go for it

user327854831 · 22/09/2017 05:24

Hmm, no, don't do it.

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 22/09/2017 05:29

Love Flora.

But would avoid it with Margaret

Needalifeoverhaul · 22/09/2017 05:31

I think it's a gorgeous name and would never have thought of the margarine connection..until you pointed it out. So, think you are overthinking it! Smile

WhatToDoAboutThis2017 · 22/09/2017 05:40

Flora is lovely, but you absolutely cannot pair it with Margaret.

PandorasXbox · 22/09/2017 07:40

It's fine OP. I mean when exactly do you announce your full name?

HaggisMuncher · 22/09/2017 08:03

Split verdict! Margaret was my Gran's name so a special one for us. Our other middle name (also a special one for us) starts with a G so we end up with FGM. not great!

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Chaffinch4 · 22/09/2017 08:05

Flora Margaret is fine. Who shortens middle names?!

Discotits · 22/09/2017 08:06

Fine

AccrualIntentions · 22/09/2017 08:08

It's fine, I've never heard of anyone shortening someone's middle name. Most of the time you don't even tell people your middle name.

MortalEnemy · 22/09/2017 08:11

Absolutely fine. I tend to think that the names/initials identified as teasing targets on here suggest more of a weird, prurient over-imaginativeness on the part of grown adults.

AuntieStella · 22/09/2017 08:11

Flora in itself has the problem.

The 'spreads easily' tag line might not have been actually used in adverts for yonks, but it's not been forgotten.

And yes, middle names might not much be used, but IME children do ask each other about theirs from time to time. And this would be a memorable combination, right up in the Polly Esther league.

overnightangel · 22/09/2017 08:14

Flora Marge was first thing I thought before I'd even read the entire OPBlush

How about Olive Phillipa (Olive Pip)?

FannyTheFlamingo · 22/09/2017 08:18

I've never heard anyone shorten their middle name, so I think it's fine.

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 22/09/2017 08:19

Flora Margaret is lovely !

MammieBear · 22/09/2017 08:21

No I doubt it.

TatianaLarina · 22/09/2017 08:47

What about Marny instead of Margaret (it's a diminutive of Margaret)?

PaperdollCartoon · 22/09/2017 08:50

I think it's fine. No one your child's age with know that Flora tagline (I'm 29 and I didn't, so it has been forgotten) Flora is a lovely name. Honestly kids who want to tease can find any way of doing so.

FfionFlorist · 22/09/2017 09:14

I think it will be perfectly ok. It is a lovely name. There is a period when your baby is tiny that people use first name middle name combo - when introducing her and then for the rest of their lives they are hardly ever used together again.

Lemondrop99 · 22/09/2017 10:04

I think it's fine. Her middle name will rarely come up and who shortens a middle name anyway, unless it's in regular use in place of the first name?

Sophronia · 22/09/2017 10:39

It's absolutely fine. Flora Margaret is lovely.

BeingATwatItsABingThing · 23/09/2017 08:09

I shorten my DD's middle name. It's Louise so she is xxxx-Lou

Alisvolatpropiis · 23/09/2017 19:12

Never mind Flora Margaret (which is a no), the initials FGM are an absolute no.