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Campbell? (We are in Scotland, and don't say soup)

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frazzledoldbag · 23/02/2009 21:41

Expecting DC3 (confirmed as a boy by amnio). Toyed with a selection of names including:
Dougray (which everyone seems to hate)
Hamish
Munro
Bay
Rory / Ruari
but I like Campbell the best.
What do you ladies think?

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brimfull · 25/02/2009 10:09

I like Fergus and Angus

brimfull · 25/02/2009 10:10

Is Russell scottish?

FlyMeToDunoon · 25/02/2009 10:14

I love Lysander!
Russell is a boy with a paper bag on his head..... or crawling through some dry leaves Or aaargh wearing skin tight wet-look leggings.

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frazzledoldbag · 25/02/2009 10:15

giggling at FlyMe
Russel makes me think of that fat astrologer man. So nope.

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MrsMattie · 25/02/2009 10:17

Campbell is my grandfather's name (Northern Irish/Scot background). I wouldn't use it, personally, but it's not awful. I really like Dougray (Dougie is cute, too). It's very Scottish and kind of quirky. Not keen on the others, though.

FlyMeToDunoon · 25/02/2009 10:23

Knew a very lovely Lysander and always started humming...
Some talk of Alexander, and some of Hercules;
Of Hector and Lysander, and such great names as these;
But of all the world's braves heroes, there's none that can compare
With a tow, row, row, row, row, row, row, for the British Grenadiers.
tune here

nailpolish · 25/02/2009 13:09

aw please pick fergus it is such a great name

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frazzledoldbag · 25/02/2009 15:27

DH likes it but makes me think 'fungus'. Which isn't good.

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muffle · 25/02/2009 15:32

Campbell to me is a grumpy scottish man of a certain age with a white handlebar moustache, who never fails to find fault with anything and everything (I have met 2 of them!).

I like Hamish, but also Lysander from your other thread.

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frazzledoldbag · 26/02/2009 13:22

Oh god am so confused now.
Why are boys names so hard?

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Bubbaluv · 26/02/2009 13:34

Sorry if I haven't read enough of the thread and am doubling up, but I'mconfused by the Scottish accent required to pronounce Lachlan. I must know a dozen Lachlans, but have never actually heard it said with a Scottish accent. Why would you not just say it without the accent? "Lock-lan" - pretty straight forward no?
Am assuming there is some sort of gutteral roll involved in saying it with a scottish accent? If so, do you adopt that auuuugh noise when saying Loch Ness and other words that sound gutteral with a Scottish accent?

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frazzledoldbag · 26/02/2009 13:47

I don't know,bubbaluv maybe it's just the way my dH says it but it sounds like you've got to have saliva in the back of your mouth to say it properly (eeeuch sorry). (I'm English, he's Scottish in case that isn't obvious!)
Any anyway is it Lack-lan or Loch-lan and Lacky or Locky for short? Or either? Or both?
See it's like the whole Ruari, Rhuridh, Rhuari thing - I like it but it's just all too confusing.
(My friend has a 6 yr old Rhuaridh and his school teacher told him off for spelling his name wrong. Turns out he was using his correct spelling and she was wrong! Poor kid).

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frazzledoldbag · 26/02/2009 13:49

Maybe I'm just paranoid but also (apparently) according to my FIL I don't pronounce my (married) surname properly. So woe betide me if I name my son something I will then be deemed not Scottish enough to say 'properly'!

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nailpolish · 26/02/2009 13:51

at "gutteral roll"

bloody cheek

the ch in lachlan is not pronounced ck

get it right or dont bother

its not lock ness its loch ness

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frazzledoldbag · 26/02/2009 13:55

You see, this is why I was swaying toward Campbell. There is only one way to say/spell it so I can't be told off for doing it wrong.

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MmeLindt · 26/02/2009 13:56

I like Rory/Ruari

Don't like Campbell

No to Douglas (we used to call my mum's friend lugless Douglas

Murray is good, I have friend called Murray M...

My mum's middle name is Nairn. (And didn't my Grandad get hell for that when he got back from registering her birth)

What about Connor? [biased emoticon]

We did not agree on a name for DS until 3 days before he was born; DD was named when I was about 3 weeks pregnant.

nailpolish · 26/02/2009 13:58

Corin

nailpolish · 26/02/2009 13:59

or Corran if you prefer

nailpolish · 26/02/2009 13:59

Cormac

or Cormack

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frazzledoldbag · 26/02/2009 14:00

Sounds too much like Colin - sorry that's a no.
Any others?

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frazzledoldbag · 26/02/2009 14:02

sorry crossed posts. Corran and Cormac sound like Corian (worktop) and Caramac (mmmmmmm) but no.

See, I do like Murray and Munro and other M names but our surname begins with M and is quite short so might sound silly. Ideally I'd like to avoid an M forename.

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LadyPinkofPinkerton · 26/02/2009 14:03

I like all of the names on your list. Great chooices

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frazzledoldbag · 26/02/2009 14:03

Glenn? or is that a labradors name?

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frazzledoldbag · 26/02/2009 14:05

Oh thanks ladyPink - you sound lovely!!!!!!

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nailpolish · 26/02/2009 14:05

my dd1 has initials MM

we call her Eminem

(well we dont really)

i think it sounds cool

go with Ruaridh then

Grant
Craig
Chris
Arran
Skein
Innes