my baby is due october...

[Makingdo]

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I thought that was how it was pronounced. It's hard when you get to the third one though, you don't want to give them a "rejected" name for your other two.

DD1 got our girls name and it really does suit her

DD2 got a very unusual name and she's well very unusual

DD3 surprisingly we have both agreed on a name for her unless she pops out and doesn't look like it at all.

If we had of had a boy DP really wanted one name I wanted another, there would have been bloodshed.

masonry is frowned upon because it's a very real and utterly revolting 'jobs for the boys' system, it's not make-believe.

look, you clearly like the name (as it happens i'm with expat on the artisanal names thing) so go right ahead. but you are kidding yourself if you think that he won't hear a lot about it during his life, especially if you have relatives in scotland (by the way, i think they are being disingenuous with you). as i say, though, perhaps he'll enjoy the attention? but it will cause offence to some people.

Oooh I like Muireann, very pretty.

OK, butting in here but I must be missing something because I never heard this before...

The whole of the west of Scotland would pass comment on the name because they don't like Freemasons? Is that the gist? Blimey, there mustn't be much else going on there then. I never heard of half a country taking against an organisation like that. Strange...

Not keen on the name personally but nothing to do with poxy Freemasons. Isla is beautiful though, however you spell it.

it goes a bit deeper than that, sky.

it's hard to explain, but it goes deeper than that.

it's about sectarianism - economic, cultural, religious, etc. it's about the dynamics between East and West, etc.

I just can't decide between Mason and Zebedee
I'm not sure makingdo is taking this at all seriously.

then you could nickname him 'zeb'.

that's cool, yeah?

zebedee is on my shortlist

agree with Masons thing though

the freemasons do offend an awful lot of people - i would not call my child Osama Adolf nor Mason

am i the only person that thinks of bricks when reading the name Mason?