maude/mona

[LolaTheShowgirl]

opinions please?

Love Maude not Mona (sounds like Moaner)

I like Winifred and Elsie too!

Maude is lovely. I don't think it is an old ladies name at all. Very pretty.

Mona - I make the connection Moaner tbh.

What about Martha?

I like Maude and don't like Mona.

Maeve is lovely too as is Meryl.

I've heard of another short, unsusual girls name beginning with M but I can't think of it.

I'd go for Matilda which is traditionally the more formal version of Maude. As in Matilda, Empress Maud/e. You can shorten it to Maude if you like but at least she has a choice when she grows up. The only person who calls me by my full name these days is my mother - and that's my choice.

I'm sorry but I'd much rather be called Matilda or Tilly than Maude! There's no room for manoevre there. At least I got that!

Don't like either

Maude is gorgous...but than, I like Ivy, and I know most people think that is an old ladies name

I LOVE Maude and was on my girl shortlist

It is gorgeously old ladylike and makes me think of victoris sponge and jam and pretty dresses!

No sorry. But then that rather depends on whether one likes the old names.

I don't. But if you do then go for it! Of the two tough, i would be forced to choose mona.

Oooh, sorry, but I intensely dislike both of them.

Maude sounds like maudlin, and Mona is .. well, moaner.

You'll never be able to say to her, 'Don't moan, Mona'.

Mildred, anyone?

Both those names are in the same league.

Rather Desi. Just cannot see the fascination with these old granny names (have seen them over and over on mn lately). Sorry Lola.

Maude is gorgeous- love it!
Don't really like Mona though

I think of Bord na Mona. Which is peat (turf) from the bog. ;-0

Maude is nmsaa. Too crusty. I like old lady names usually but not that one. Meryl or Beryl or Edith or Meredith are all nicer sounds.

what about Muriel then?
Peronally I couldn't do it in a million years - twas my Grandma's name and is too old lady. Ditto Great Aunt Mildred, GA Doris, GA Gwen, GA Gladys.
Ethel always makes me think of Ethel off Eastenders, with her "little Willie"

I like Elsie though, but prefer Elsa.

I hear the name Maude, Muriel, Mildred, Mona, and I smell piss.

It's just the way it is.

Piss?! :D PISSSSS!!!

Well, when I was a kid, I used to visit this old lady called Maude.

Bloody hell! Come to think of it, I was only about nine, and I would cycle eight miles to visit her on quite busy roads because of some school thing, where you adopted an old fart of some description.

Anyhow, my old fart was called Maude.

She wore extremly big pants, which she would casually rinse through the cold tap, and then put before the fire to dry.

Naturally, the resultant steam in a small, 19th C cottage stank of piss.

Hence my problem with Maude.

lol @ smell association - when I hear the names of all my aged rellys I think boiled cabbage and mutton cos that's pretty much what all their houses smelt like.