Mungo: Cool or cruel?

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I mean I really like the name

What did I do wrong? why did that not work?
I really like the name

there!?

ffs

My goodness me! We have a convert! C'mon in and have a slab of tablet.

I do! If you have an hour (!) to read the thread back, my very first comment, before all the rumpus kicked off, was that I thought it was an ok name, but that you had to be honest about what circles you mix in.

I still sort of think that's true. In London and Scotland, totally cool. But in Liverpool, maybe it's not going to fly.

In Ireland, a Mungo might be teased by a boys called Oisín and Tadhg and Cathal!! So there is that cultural aspect to consider.

But anyway, the more I learnt about the name, the more I like it.

This was fun though. I'm going to start a thread about Columba now

I might learn something.

Is Tadhg pronounced: tie? I saw it elsewhere and wondered.

Tadhg is like the first syllable of Tiger. grrr I like it. It's tough but in a cool way. It means poet.

Nice meaning.

My friend called her boy Oisin (she's Irish) and we had a little text off between our mutual friends as we didn't know if it was a boy or girl!! (seemed a bit rude to ask)

My eldest is called Osian - the welsh version of Oisin. We just call him Osh, which is pretty cool.

A friends son is Tadhg - but we call him Tad - is that not the correct pronunciation?

Yes my Irish friend is married to a Welshman. They call their lo 'oshy'. She's expecting no 2 and I'm dying to know what she's going to call this one.

CRUEL!!!!Mungo the Mongo i hear them chant in the playground!

In Irish folklore (brilliant stories, thousands of years old children still learn them in school) Oisin is the son of FInn McCool..... It's a McCool name in my humble opinion, but yeah, possibly a bit strange-sounding to the English ear.

oooh yes, have heard the origins of Oisin.

Had to look it up though

Cruel

From memory Oisin/Osian was a poet and a warrior. Who went to live in the land of eternal youth with Naimh of the golden hair, astride a white stallion. Hundreds of years later he returned to the land of mere mortals (he was still very young) but every one else had aged and looked old and weak, he climbed down from the white stallion to help an old man and as soon as his feet touched the earth he aged and fell into a deep sleep (died esentially)

So DS1 has a lot to live up to : a warrior on the rugby field a poet on the dance floor!

I think Mungo is a great name and can't quite fathom the reaction on here. I used to live in Glasgow though and it's a familiar name up there so may be I'm just more accustomed to it.

Same here Roobie. It's a name I've always loved and I think this thread has only made me like it more. I'd love to see if anyone on this thread would have the balls to tell a RL Glasweigan that their patron saint's name is pretentious and that he was probably some sort of overly confident middle class wanker. Hopefully they'd get a Glasgow kiss for their pains

Kezza, I've fingered wagged already on this thread about ignorant outdated racist offensive language, perhaps you haven't bothered to read the thread but it has already been made clear that ignorant people will behave like, um, well, ignorant people and that people who know better don't give a crap what they chant/say/think/behave like a pack.

Oisin is a great name. Is it Osh-een or Oh-sheen, though? I have heard different pronunciations.

Amazing that saying Mungo sounds like 'mongol' makes one ignorant and racist

I agree that we say 'Down's Syndrome' rather than 'mongol' these days. However, 'mongol' was the term in use some years ago (possibly back when you were not old enough to insult people). And to those of us who remember it, one word sounds like the other.

In case you are still snickering to yourself, do take a moment to consider that mentioning the similarity of these two words does not mean we are calling anybody 'mongol', or even using the word when talking about Down Syndrome people.