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Perspicacious for a boy

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SaskiaRembrandt · 20/08/2022 23:18

I know the practice of giving babies' grace names has fallen out favour, but I've always loved it. Bearing that in mind, I'd love to hear your opinions of Perspicacious for a boy. It means ''having a ready insight into and understanding of things' which are qualities I'd like my child to have. Saying that, I'd appreciate feedback.

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EarringsandLipstick · 21/08/2022 00:15

oceanbleu · 20/08/2022 23:43

What about Jim?

😁😁

butterflied · 21/08/2022 00:16

VacayingInTheHamptons · 20/08/2022 23:30

It means ''having a ready insight into and understanding of things' which are qualities I'd like my child to have.

I think your son will wish his parents had had an insight and understanding into life at secondary school when they named him. 😬

Exactly this. Come on.

butterflied · 21/08/2022 00:16

EarringsandLipstick · 21/08/2022 00:15

Brilliant (and correct!)

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Ah, this is fabulous.

RJnomore1 · 21/08/2022 00:17

Sounds too much like perspire

KnottyKnitting · 21/08/2022 00:18

Poor kid - he would be lucky to learn how to spell it by the end of year 2!

Caminante · 21/08/2022 00:19

CrapBag39 · 20/08/2022 23:24

Pterodactyl is nicer

Terry for short!

Hankunamatata · 21/08/2022 00:21

He will shorten it to peri as soon as he can

oakleaffy · 21/08/2022 00:21

Bloody silly!

Jammies · 21/08/2022 00:22

Go for it! And he will need a good strong middle name which flows with it, such as Owen or Leonard.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 21/08/2022 00:23

My son's middle name is Ptolemy, it suits him as he's a good mathmetician.

Actualy that's a lie , not the maths , he's good at Maths . But I deliberately didn;t give DS or DD middle names so they can choose their own.
This month we picked Ptolemy

Hankunamatata · 21/08/2022 00:23

judicious or jude for short

PipinwasAuntieMabelsdog · 21/08/2022 00:24

Unless you have so much money that they will never need to get a job, not as a given name, no. It will be a nightmare for a little child to spell, it won't fit on a coat peg, nametag etc. It sounds very pretentious and he will be teased at school. A middlename if you must, OP

oakleaffy · 21/08/2022 00:24

“Point Percy at porcelain “ is what it reminds me of.

WhimsicalGubbins · 21/08/2022 00:26

You want an honest answer?

Ok. I think a name like Perspicacious qualifies as child abuse-and it also qualifies the parent to earn the title ‘pretentious pillock’

Children do NOT develop into the meaning of their names. This isn’t 1482 and we don’t still believe in magic and fairy dust

oakleaffy · 21/08/2022 00:26

CandyLeBonBon · 20/08/2022 23:39

I think Audacious has a certain ring to it. Audie for short?

😂Audie
Brilliant!

WhimsicalGubbins · 21/08/2022 00:28

Whataretheodds · 20/08/2022 23:26

I now have "we'll drink, drink a drink to Lily the Pink the Pink the Pink" in my head.

Are you thinking of the word ‘efficacious’? 😂

Hankunamatata · 21/08/2022 00:29

Justice
Fortitude

Jammies · 21/08/2022 00:32

He will most likely be the only Perspicacious in his class at school if that’s important to you.

oakleaffy · 21/08/2022 00:32

A silly couple with an out of control Black Giant Poodle called it “ Ignatious”

Their futile calls as it tried to clasp and hump young children was beyond infuriating
” Iggnaaaaaaa- shusss!
IggggggnaaaaaaaaaaaSHUSSSSS!!!”

An older woman gave Igggnaaaaatious a prod with her walking stick as it tried to flatten her small dog.
If you are going to give a child or dog a pompous name, ensure it’s behaviour is beyond reproach.

Otherwise people will laugh,
~and not in a good way .

mellicauli · 21/08/2022 00:34

Probably kinder not to.

If you call your son Perspicacious he is bound to have a lisp. Then when people ask his name. he will answer and promptly get the shit kicked out of him.

OldFan · 21/08/2022 00:37

Really?

MumofSpud · 21/08/2022 00:37

He will never be able to go to a regular state secondary school - not mine anyway!

oakleaffy · 21/08/2022 00:38

mellicauli · 21/08/2022 00:34

Probably kinder not to.

If you call your son Perspicacious he is bound to have a lisp. Then when people ask his name. he will answer and promptly get the shit kicked out of him.

Perthpicathiouth

Poor kid
:(

MrsElijahMikaelson1 · 21/08/2022 00:40

Sounds a bit sweaty to me! Awful thing to do to a child.

TheLadyofShalott1 · 21/08/2022 00:40

AdaColeman · 20/08/2022 23:29

Not as nice as Supercalifragalisticexpialidocious!

@AdaColeman isn't it

"Supercalafragilisticexpialidocious?

Well that is how I have spelled it every weekend for the last 50 years - you know when I am re-watching Mary Poppins for the zillinth time, and writing all about it in my 100 year diary.

However I like both this and @SaskiaRembrandt's names equally, and she was looking for a middle name...