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What do you think of Venetia?

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LuciaRose · 17/04/2009 14:51

I know a very lovely, elegant girl called Venetia, which makes me love this name, but objetively, what do you really think? What connotations does it have for you?

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fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 17/04/2009 14:55

Honestly... blinds!

screamingabdab · 17/04/2009 14:56

I knew a girl with this name when I was a kid. It was very unusual, and quite "posh" where we came from. The same could be said for my name, so I think that's why I liked it - a kindred spirit! (I did not like my name much when i was little - I wanted to be Emma or Claire)

Her mum used to call her Nee Nee.

I would say that now I find it a bit too "aristocratic" for my taste, so depends if you are an aristocrat or not as to whether you can pull it off !

screamingabdab · 17/04/2009 14:57

Oh Yes, Fanjo - blinds !

procrastinatingparent · 17/04/2009 14:58

Venetia is the heroine of one of my favourite Georgette Heyer books. I love it. Don't know what it would be shortened to, though.

mileniwmffalcon · 17/04/2009 14:59

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JulesJules · 17/04/2009 15:00

I really like it. Actually it didn't make me think of blinds, more of Venice (which I love) - it is pretty, elegant and unusual.

Stretch · 17/04/2009 15:01

I know one! Without the i though.

iwouldgoouttonight · 17/04/2009 15:05

It reminds me of a girl I went to school with who was really pretty and popular [jealous emoticon]

OrmIrian · 17/04/2009 15:07

It's one of my DD's favourite puds.

MollieO · 17/04/2009 15:08

Lovely - if you can afford the school fees!

nickschick · 17/04/2009 15:09

It sounds like a type of varicose vein to me - sorry

Ronaldinhio · 17/04/2009 15:09

I prefer them to those weird hanging blinds with the strings on or even Austrian if I'm totally honest

In wood or what?
Have you considered shutters?

Leannabanana · 17/04/2009 15:33

sounds very 'Next' - they love a bit of venetian glass don't they....mirrors, jewel boxes etc

i really do not like it - sorry

muggglewump · 17/04/2009 15:37

It makes me think of the ice cream dessert (desert?), Vienetta.
Sorry.

Thunderduck · 17/04/2009 16:00

Blinds.

laughalot · 17/04/2009 16:04

Venetia williams she was the trainer of the grand national horse that won this year. Pretty name

SarahL2 · 17/04/2009 16:11

All the Venetia's I know of are chavs. Not good

OrmIrian · 17/04/2009 16:13

It also struck me as a good answer to the 'what do you call a girl's bits' thread.

ScorpiowithabigS · 17/04/2009 16:13

I know one and she is horrid.

SarahL2 · 17/04/2009 18:12

I've always wondered what I would call a girls bits if I had a girl/when my son asks.... Is there really a thread?

SouthernMeerkat · 17/04/2009 18:26

There was one at my public school - with a double barrelled surname, and she looked like a horse; and then there is my mother's completely overbearing friend who is called that, (nn Vinny) and who is the world's biggest snob. So for me it's a no because of the people I know, but I actually think it's rather a pretty name.

RustyBear · 17/04/2009 18:33

I knew one at the junior school I work at, but she spelt it Venexia. It was actually her middle name, but she was always known by it. She was (and probably still is) a lovely girl, from a lovely family.

MrsMattie · 17/04/2009 18:35

I know a Venetia and she is a very strange and unlikeable women, so that has probably coloured my view of the name.

Bonneville · 17/04/2009 18:41

Definitely blinds.

Cies · 17/04/2009 18:47

I know a Venetia who's 21, stunningly gorgeous, funny, rather posh, and goes by the nickname Vee.

I think it's a pretty name.