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Is Araminta too posh?

57 replies

carlottawales · 23/09/2008 12:27

Sorry to those to those who don't like the posh/chav threads, but I really need to know honestly.
Araminta has been tentatively on my list for a while now, surely in this day and age it is safe for non upper class people to use?
would appreciate your thoughts.

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lunamoon2 · 24/09/2008 22:33

Wow, a very different name (well I personally don't know any but there is a "Minty" charcater in a book I have read. )Sorry can't remember which one, but the character was very posh-could have been a Louise Bagshaw novel.

Essie3 · 25/09/2008 16:32

It is very posh. (I'm common.) She would get beaten up if you live in Wales, Carlottawales

LOL though at the 'is it safe for non upper class people to use'. I had visions of toffs attacking you in full hunting gear for stealing one of theirs!

Romney · 25/09/2008 22:21

My DH has never heard of the name Araminta. He thought you were naming your child after Alan Minter (a boxer from the 1970s).

BabyBaby123 · 26/09/2008 09:39

awful name imo

Butkin · 26/09/2008 12:19

I like it. The only one we know though is called Minty and we see her riding at pony shows.

BlueChampagne · 26/09/2008 13:17

It was the name my Granny gave to the "ghost" or whatever used to open cupboard doors in the kitchen. If you have reservations, don't do it.

PuppyMonkey · 26/09/2008 13:18

Yes. Not only posh, also horrid.

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