I think I'm going to go uber poncy for unborn baby's middle name. What is the PONCIEST name you can think of?

[MamaG]

lol at you lot with posh Clovis-connection

and me with robot shagger

surely anything with double letters like ffffion?

Also Vivian and Lindsay also for boys

(DH tried to convince me on Vivian, I stood firm)

Gustave family name for us as well

Message withdrawn

i knew a lindsay (boy) at school

My mother mis-heard DH when he phoned her to inform her we'd had a boy and were calling him Lawrence.

She thought he'd said 'Clarence'. Afterwards she said to me..

'Eee, I though poor little bugger, but I said nowt'

but does it make it poncey if you use a foreign name when you are not foreign?

Or you could go the other way

Glory
Wesley
Wilberforce

Beverley for boys too, Effie, as in Beverley Nichols

or Harley (Granville Barker)

LOL MamaG, I had my hands on Reginald and Clovis (for professional reasons of course).

Effie, what do you reckon to Gabriel-Ernest...or even Sredni Vashtar...?

ahem

zoltan is poncey

if you live in hackney

Ooh Marina I love Basil...

we know a small Basil (half Russian so can ger away with it)

Who was the small boy with the aunt punished for telling lies?

one of our neighbours in southampton had a cat called basil

baaaaaaaasiiiiiiiiiiiiiilllllllllll

Belgo, I think it does
Agreed Trolley, a lot of these names would be fine in another culture or some centuries ago

None of us are saying they are horrid - there are some real corkers here in fact

Dd was "Wilgefortis" when she was a bump. She was born not with a beard, thank goodness, but definitely on the hairy side. That'll teach me

marina
i loved Angel for a boy

can you tell dh was relieved we had girls?

dd1 was Hosni, as in Mubarek (ante natally)

Nicholas. The Lumber Room

www.geocities.com/short_stories_page/sakilumberroom.html

must dig out my copy of Saki, haven't read them for ages

DS was Costcutter while a bump...

PMSL at Hosni. Can I please ask...why?

Algernon

Algernon is a fine name

Percy

Oh, Effie, how could you jettison that in favour of the horrendous name you chose in the end

Araminta
Tarquin

We did call him Costcutter for a while post-birth as well

poor sod

luckily he grew into his given name

I remember everyone being very about one of his middle names (Duncan, on the grounds that you can't go wrong with Scottish kings)

Would this have been when IDS was "in charge" of the Tories though?