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If you're tempted to call your poor daughter Honey, please can you put Honor on the birth cert and nn her Honey 'til you go off the name Honey

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MsMargotBeauregarde · 24/04/2009 19:53

Thank you. That is all

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Leannabanana · 25/04/2009 22:23

how many children do you have then??

dizzydixies · 25/04/2009 22:23

and the best named boy in town

lockets · 25/04/2009 22:25

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Leannabanana · 25/04/2009 22:26

crikey....thats a few then. Can i please have Guinevere for my little girl then?

i want to call her winnie for short....

[i am now ducking for cover...]

dizzydixies · 25/04/2009 22:26

ah bless Mr Lockets and his last minute realisation but re your 4th, I fear Mr dixie isn't going to let me have

brocadey · 25/04/2009 22:30
lockets · 25/04/2009 22:31

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dizzydixies · 25/04/2009 22:32

Leanna I loved Arwyn and DD1 was very nearly that - you could have Winnie for a nn for Arwyn too

brocadey - are you unwell?

brocadey · 25/04/2009 22:34

I am now. Take your sickly syrup elsewhere please.

Leannabanana · 25/04/2009 22:34

i fear brocadey has taken ill......oh dear....surely the name is not THAT bad????

Arwyn is very lovely too.....such lovely sounding names the welsh names aren't they...

dizzydixies · 25/04/2009 22:35

excuse me? I hadn't noticed I was force feeding anyone syrup

lockets · 25/04/2009 22:37

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solidgoldshaggingbunnies · 25/04/2009 22:38

I'm amazed that anyone thinks the opinion of '30% of people' relevant to anything. At least 65 percent of all people are fucking idiots whose opinions (if they can cope with actually formulating any rather than parroting the latest from Heat/The Sun/The Mail) are irrelevant anyway.

SOLOisMeredithGrey · 25/04/2009 22:58

Definitely have no intention of reading the whole thread, though I've read a lot of it. I think that whilst the name Honey would not be my choice ~ and I have a Willow(is that silly/regretable too?), so not against 'different' names at all, I actually think Honey is very nice for a child, or an adult and Honey Smith(as was brought up by someone)makes a lovely name with Honey making for a distraction from an ordinary surname. I like it.

SOLOisMeredithGrey · 25/04/2009 23:00

Lockets, I gave consideration to both of those names for Dd too!

Heated · 25/04/2009 23:18

Can we get back to Poopy?

I'm still snorting over NL's 19.58 post - surely a contender for post of the week?

dizzydixies · 25/04/2009 23:20

Poopy is fab but I don't want to gush over it too much incase I induce vomitting again

lunamoon2 · 25/04/2009 23:36

Soupdragon I am intreged as to what your name could be. Do you mean your surmname rhymes with Lorraine? As in Mrs Drain or something?

cutekids · 25/04/2009 23:42

just absolutely pmsl at "poopy"...Made my night that has

TwoIfBySea · 25/04/2009 23:44

Honey is a character in Gone With The Wind, sister of Ashley and India. So it isn't really new and trendy.

I think it is personal choice and what is to say that Honor is a better one?

nooka · 26/04/2009 00:35

Guinevere and Genivieve are both really nice, unusual but not unknown names. I prefer Gwinny to Winnie as a nn though.

I really dislike Honey as a given name. To me it is not a name, not even a nickname, but an endearment that I don't like at all because it is patronising and sickly sweet. I really object when anyone tries it on me (including dh). I seems unnecessary as a name somehow, because you can use it anyway, so you could choose a proper name (unusual as you like, I like unusual names) and then call your child a range of endearments as the mood takes you.

Why not Beatrice/Beatrix/Bridget/Clarabell and Bee as a nn if you really like sweetness so much!

lockets · 26/04/2009 00:40

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wombleprincess · 26/04/2009 08:57

but poopy does have a certain ring to it....

fizzpops · 26/04/2009 09:03

I would be intrigued to meet someone who had named their children based solely on other people's ideas of what is risible/ potential solicitor material/ sensible and not even a tiny bit on their own personal preference.

If such a person exists I would feel they had desperately low self esteem.

On the other hand if those people who are so vocal about naming a child something traditional/ a proper name have used a name for which they have the slightest preference I would like to know why they don't think everyone else should be able to exercise the same right to choose names for which they have a preference.

It all comes down - as someone commented earlier - to the names that people like. Some people like unusual names - get over it!

Btw I have a Poopy Poppy and have made the unfortunate typo on occasion. Does not put me off the name either. Neither does the idea that someone else thinks it is 'cutesy', as I have said before I think of a gorgeous scarlet colour - nothing cutesy about that. She is certainly shaping up to be more of a feisty girl than cutesy in any case and I imagine people will spot that when they meet her.

I have a name which a lot of people on here love but which I have been told is 'not an adult name', is really the name of a dog and is very 'of the moment' - all untrue in my case (especially the dog one). It is both traditional and sensible and I am sure there are many doctors/ solicitors etc named the same as me, unfortunately I have never really felt it suited me and there is nothing my parents could have done to have predicted that. They just chose a name they liked.

subtlemouse · 26/04/2009 10:09

Honey in Gone With the Wind is a nickname, given because it is what she calls everyone.

And Clarabel is one of Thomas the Tank Engine's carriages.

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