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KateTTC123 · 25/10/2018 17:02

Right, so my mil has been happily announcing that she doesn't like our choice of names; Angus and Scarlett. I'm pretty frustrated by it as she regularly tells the story of how her mil didn't like her choice of name and she didn't use it and has always been disappointed by that. So my mum suggested we throw her off the scent with some awful decoy names that we say we will be using, to the point where our actual names seem like a blessing. I'm thinking something very posh sounding like Bartholomew or Sebastian as she would really hate those. She thinks I'm posh so would probably believe them. Then, after using these for the entire pregnancy, a wee Angus or Scarlet would seem welcome! Any other suggestions for decoy names?...

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SilverySurfer · 27/10/2018 19:20

Ichabod and Boadicea Grin

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 27/10/2018 19:25

Wilhelmina and Alan.

GraceMarks · 27/10/2018 21:47

Anyone who came to a horrible end in Greek mythology, so you have the combination of pretentiousness and bad luck.

Antigone
Electra
Clytemnestra
Andromache
Echo

Pentheus
Promethius
Sisyphus
Agamemnon
Oedipus, with Rex as a middle name

moredoll · 27/10/2018 21:49

Ermentrude

Balonz

3secondsfromchaos · 27/10/2018 21:53

Regina
Myfanwy

Roger
Roderick
Horace
Gilbert

Thetimehascometo · 27/10/2018 21:56

We told everyone that DC1 would be Balthazar for a boy and Balthazara for a girl.
Not sure anyone believed us but it meant that they stopped asking!!

waterlego6064 · 27/10/2018 22:26

Baldrick, Jesus, Gaylord or Colin.

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