Hate DD’s planned baby name. Is it ever ok to say that?

[Giggsie]

I expect the answer is to keep quiet but I fear by future grandchild will be teased mercilessly.

You could suggest Ianthe, if she wants a name starting with I and is Greek in origin.

Zeus raped everyone that moved in mythological Greece so it’s not really that dramatic a part of the plot.

Made me think of "Iolanthe"

Have G&S been cancelled yet ?

Well said .

I would struggle naming my child after a woman who was turned into a "horned heifer" by a man to "protect" her...

@SerendipityJane sorry what's G&S?

It’s pretty. I really like it

I feel for you OP! Personally I love your DD’s choice, but you cannot say anything! If it helps I dislike both my grandchildren’s names but I’ve accepted them, love the children very much and have NEVER told their parents my opinion of the names they chose.

i o let’s go
ee i ee i o
i o i o it’s off to work we go

yeah, I’d be keen for them to change it too, but not sure how you can really. Poor kid 😂

I met a little girl named Io a couple of weeks ago. I loved the name, and chatted with her mum about it. Mum was intelligent, friendly and articulate. The little girl was gorgeous and confident. I see no reason any child would be teased over such a name. Children are teased if they are vulnerable to teasing, not simply because of an unusual name. Don’t say anything. It’s a great name, just not to your taste.

Judith slaying Holofernes is a bomb ass story! Great heroine.

Gilbert and Sullivan.

Gloriously British, and rollicking good fun.

(Hums the Major Generals Song.....)

I suppose Eryx is better than Pollux.

@oncemoreuntothebeachdearfriends

I suppose Eryx is better than Pollux.

Oh God, imagine that boy's childhood!

It’s not. It’s not an L then an O. It’s an I then an O.

So pronounced Eye-Oh.

Can you imagine the poor kid dealing with this in school? Or on the phone? ‘So Capital eye, then an Oh. Yeah just two letters. Eye oh.

And the other parts when she became human and strong

how a man treats a woman doesn’t define her
and it certainly shouldn’t define a name

Pretty name.
Vanishingly small chance she'll marry a man called Money.

I don’t think it’s that bad tbh. She will probably have people asking how it’s pronounced all her life but apart from that it’s not an awful name

Is this another wind-up. You have to love this thread 😂

I absolutely love both of those names!

I actually like Eryx too - shame they aren’t having a boy really!

😂😂😂

To be fair, my oldest went to school with a set of twins called Nathan and Nathaniel, so anything's possible😀

Or twin boys.

My work can wait 😂