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what are posh names then?

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strawberriesandcream01 · 11/05/2008 22:29

Just wondering? I have always liked Tabitha, Martha, sebastian. I know an Arthur and Monty. What would you class as a posh name and also as an embarrasing name!

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strawberriesandcream01 · 11/05/2008 22:48

Finty? hey?!

How about Otis?

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molecularbreakdown · 11/05/2008 22:48

Bathsheba
Penelope (as in Thunderbirds, not Pittstop)

Embarrassing name...

Willy (has that already been done)

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Greensleeves · 11/05/2008 22:51

Virginia
Tamara
Rupert
Julian
Miriam

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snice · 11/05/2008 22:51

Otis is def. not posh

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Troutpout · 11/05/2008 22:52

Verity is posh

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BecauseImWorthIt · 11/05/2008 22:52

Makes good lifts though.

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Greensleeves · 11/05/2008 22:52

Felicity

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CocodeBear · 11/05/2008 22:53

Maximillian
Cordelia
Camilla
Araminta (Minty)

I had Hector and Monty on my names lists. Fortunately I had girls .

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CocodeBear · 11/05/2008 22:55

OMG DD2's name is on that other thread

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DontCallMeBaby · 11/05/2008 22:56

I wondered about Miriam - the little girl who was talking to us over my parents' wall yesterday has a friend called Miriam and she (wall-lurking little girl) was rather posh so I dare say Miriam is too.

Jonty? Proper name or nickname. Definitely posh.

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CoteDAzur · 11/05/2008 22:57

People really call their kids Ptolemy? Why?

He was a Greek astronomer/astrologer who lived in 1st century AD. How on earth did his name became a name for posh English boys?

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controlfreakyagain · 11/05/2008 23:04

well he's a character in shakespeare innit (ptolemy that is) ant and cleo..

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CocodeBear · 12/05/2008 07:36

Oberon is a v posh name.

The president of the lesbian and gay society at my university was called Oberon.

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Nancy66 · 12/05/2008 10:52

Camilla
Octavia
Jemima
Imogen
Hugh
Hugo
Giles
Barnaby
Rory

....all names I think of as being a bit 'plummy'

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CoteDAzur · 12/05/2008 14:10

Excuse my ignorance, but in which Shakespeare play was there a 'Ptolemy'? And was it the Ptolemy (astronomer/astrologer in 1st century AD) or was it another guy by the same name?

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LynetteScavo · 12/05/2008 14:18

aquilla (sp?) is posh for a boy.

Ptolomy will always be posh -and I will always insist on saying it with a p.

I think Claudia is a bit posh, but lovely.

Margo is posh.

I also love Martha.

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dizzydixies · 12/05/2008 14:21

oh lordy none of the rory's I know are posh, certainly not up here in scotland

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LynetteScavo · 12/05/2008 14:22

Imogen and Jemima isnt' posh around here anymore.

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LynetteScavo · 12/05/2008 14:22

Imogen and Jemima isnt' posh around here anymore.

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Twinkie1 · 12/05/2008 14:23

There are Raiff(sp?) and Boris at DSs nursery which always make me smile!

Boris looks like a little bruiser and Raiff is a weedy little thing!

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cardy · 12/05/2008 14:24

Barnaby

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electra · 12/05/2008 14:28

Theo
Lars
Miles
Beatrice

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Moosma · 12/05/2008 14:50

I have a Tabetha and we're really not posh.

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