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For a girl...... Arrietty and Homily

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summerstrawberry · 06/09/2008 19:23

I know where they are from (and I may have been influenced by the pregnancy hormones also) but the more I think about these, the more I like them.
So Arrietty and Homily for a girl, what do you think?

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FabioBadAssCat · 06/09/2008 20:49

Your hormones have taken over the Good Sense centre in your brian.
Think no more of baby names until normality has returned.
Which will be when you go 'Homily? wtf was I thinking?'

allgonebellyup · 06/09/2008 21:30

i love Arriety

allgonebellyup · 06/09/2008 21:31

i love Arriety

GodzillasBumcheek · 06/09/2008 21:31

Isn't Homily something to do with religion?

Janni · 06/09/2008 21:36

Ha Bree! I typed the same, then deleted it as too strong

frazzledoldbag34 · 06/09/2008 21:41

You are joking, right?!
And if you're not, you should be - they are BOTH DREADFUL (and sorry, I'm not often this rude) but really!!!!

hopperdee · 06/09/2008 21:42

I had guinea-pigs called Binky and Homily when I was little. I thought of Homily again for my daughter but my partner wasn't up for it. It's an amazing name. People mock unusual names and then if they get popular, pretend that they always liked the name. Don't follow the sheep! As for teasing, it's not exactly 'Tinkerbell' or 'bogface' is it? and it sounds enough like a 'normal' name, like Emily, that it doesn't sound freakish.

featherboa · 06/09/2008 21:45

Are you mad????!

Step A-WAY from the Borrowers books!

I am usually verrry broadminded about other people's name choices but this.... Gawd save us!

Gah, you're just kidding, right? Nearly had us all going there!

WendyWeber · 06/09/2008 21:45

Were they not borrowed versions of Harriet & Emily? Could you go for those instead?

featherboa · 06/09/2008 21:49

hopperdee, the problem is not that it's unusual. Its more that it's painfully conspicuous and pretentious. The kinda name that you are thinking as you pick it "I bet this'll catch on and everyone knows I was the first to use it". Not "Will this see my child through life without endless mickey-taking for association with a (rather tedious IMO) book...

Banoffi · 06/09/2008 21:49

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GodzillasBumcheek · 06/09/2008 21:56

Banoffi - yes, i knew it! I'm not mad

Blandmum · 06/09/2008 22:00

lovely

and will you go for Dreaful Spiller for a norty boy????

RustyBear · 06/09/2008 22:11

We had a hamster called Dreadful Spiller, because he used to push all the sawdust out of his cage.

hopperdee · 06/09/2008 22:12

I just think the people always talk about teasing with names but it's usually only the adults that have the problem. Most children get used to names immediatly as they don't know that the name is 'weird' in the first place, so long as it doesn't sound like 'bogey' or 'poo', then I think you'd get teased. I don't like the name because it is so unusual/pretentious, I just think it sounds pretty.

mrswoolf · 06/09/2008 22:28

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featherboa · 06/09/2008 23:03

I do know what you mean, hopperdee, that children will accept a name happily unless it reminds them of a word they already know at a young age with teasing potention such as "bogey" or "poo". Hence at nursery/early primary years it would be largely accepted (by the children, although their parents may have a little smirk about it as we have seen from the responses here).

However it's a matter of time before the children grow up a bit more and become aware of The Borrowers, in this case. If the child is less than confident and popular, this would make them targets for the laziest of bullies. Not just for the names in themselves but for all the associations of the Borrowers... living under floorboards... having cotton reels for seats... stamps for pictures... it is a treasure trove of irritating associations to fend off. Don't think it would only last as long as the book is being read either. I have a perfectly regular name from which a silly nickname was developed in junior school by a little shit charmer in the class, the nickname lasted well into secondary school.

Pretty as is, there's no doubt there's only one well-known Arriety and only one well-known Homily - and the book ain't even that good

MsHighwater · 06/09/2008 23:34

No. Bad idea.

Anglepoise · 06/09/2008 23:39

Wendy is also a name made up by an author ...

Could you really get much bullying mileage out of using cotton reels as seats?

raindropsonroses · 07/09/2008 01:27

What fabio said

seeker · 07/09/2008 05:40

Paddington for a boy. Or Scarlouy.

Please don't!

3andnomore · 07/09/2008 11:36

sorr the names are not very nice at all...actually I consider them as horrible....sorry

PuppyMonkey · 07/09/2008 11:39

Binky is a great name though

Dragonbutter · 07/09/2008 11:40

doesn't Ariete mean Ram in italian.
i don't like it. especially for a girl.

woo12woo · 11/09/2008 05:32

how about "Heaven' spelled backwards, Nevaeh ( pronounced Ne-va- ah), I think it is really pretty and different!

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