my baby is due october...

[Makingdo]

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is that a mirren? i do like that name v much.

Yes, that's how DH says it. And everyone around here.

He chose it, in fact!

Agree with the whole West of Scotland / mason thing. Read the first post and thought, "Ha! She's obviously not Scottish!" and I agree that if he ever lives /works / vists west central Scotland, Mason (or Xavier) are not appropriate names.

Do you remember Robbie Coltrane as Mason Boyne with his daughter Orangina? (MrsM shows her age!)

I'll try and link you a reference.

You mean Robbie Coltrane isn't just Hagrid in the Harry Potter films?

Youtube clip here

i must say it's mason boyne i think of too. i hope the OP doesn't think we're being mean, because it's not about that.

and remember when gazza moved up here and his wife's boy was called mason? lots of jokes about that, the poor wee sod.

I had to ask DH who 'Gazza' is .

It's all like listening to Clyde radio before a match . . .

did you pronounce it in the italian way first of all? i bet you did.

she is scottish, btw, mrsm. it's amazing to me that she's never heard of this stuff. (although am also reading back OP's posts and realise that i think she called me ignorant etc. and by extension Mrsm and expat, you are too. )

I am a halfwit

oh yes, and you too dragonbutter, you ignorant moron.

i think i did pronounce 'gazza' the italian way. i said it the way you would in spanish .

i'm pretty ignorant, because the first thing i thought when i read 'mason' as a forename was how it would go over here in the West of Scotland.

Expat, "Were you at the game, caller?"

Ha ha! I've had a bottle of wine, and any mention of the Radio Clyde footbal phone in at the late great Jimmy Sanderson makes me ROFL.

I'm really feeling old tonight. That Mason Boyne clip was from 1984. I could have sworn it was the early 90s. Jimmy Sanderson probably died about 25 years ago too.

i noticed that too, mrsm. i was at school, it feels like yesterday...

Haaahaa, MrsM! I went in to Port Glasgow yesterday to do a big shop, and on the way home had Clyde on, they were spending hours re-hashing the match.

I thought, 'WHERE do they find these listeners?!'

But hey, you gotta kill time when you're queued for the ferry.

Real Radio is just as bad. It's supposed to be an East Coast station, but they broadcast out of Livingston which is just a Glasgow subdivision.

no, the OP isn't Scottish, just has friends and family in Scotland, IIRC.

try again, caller .

By Makingdo on Fri 18-Apr-08 13:08:04
not to me and i have been n scotland all my life...however not religious in the slightest neither is all my family so i have obviously lead a centered life! however we wil be in bournemouth by the time baby arrives! I ike mason, i think with almost every name there is some horrible attachment, mie is maxine but thats dropped of the scales now thanks to maxine carr, then there is ian...you can find negatives to most names, its wether they are going to be real genuine issues or not.

she does say she's been in jockoland all her life.

ah, i see!

i do think the connotations of Mason and Xavier are more a West Coast thing, tbh, and perhaps a person from the East or the Northern Isles might not be as finely attuned to it.

i'm not sure, though, because my experience of the East Coast is somewhat limited.

it would not occur to me, however, to call my son an 'occupational' name or surname as forename simply because it is an American trend i don't much care for at all.

there are literally thousands of Tanners, Taylors, Masons and the like there. And tens of thousands of Jacksons, McFarlanes, McKenzies, Sawyers and the like.

these trends are at least a decade old there and i see they are crossing the pond with increasing frequency.

i've found, too, a person can be in Jockland forever and they may as well have been in London, in some parts .

but again, if you are deadset on a name, then go for it. why start a thread on here and spend time justifying it?

i don't get it.

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well, Aitch and MrsM are weegies, so there you go.

but seriously, to me it's just American and therefore meh. but it's your kid.

i always thought Isla was eye-la but others don't.

no, her name was spelt Murron and pronounced differently.

this name is actually irish.

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