if you shouted your kids name down the bacon aisle

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wodl poepe turn t heir head ans dhtink
"hat a twatty name"

I do however know of siblings called ... cressida and atticus ..

I'd probably just get the usual 'Did you name her after a character in Lord of the Rings?' NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I DIDN'T!!!!!!! However, poor little mite gets called everything apart from her real name anyway so people would probably wonder why on earth we named her Noo Noo!!

I don't shout ds's name down the bacon aisle - I get dp to do it - thou' usually it's not necessary as the pair of them are in the magazine aisle - dp reading about computers and ds scanning Thomas the bl**dy tank engine....

atticus is cool

atticus of mockingbird is so great that the name transcends riducle IMO

Cressida on the other hand....

i dont shout my kids in supermarkets, their names are fairly common i usually get when addressing ds1, oh youve got an xx too, so i have i, is yours a right so and so??
dd1 has not used her real name for years, even her teachers address her by her choosen name.

say Atticus to my son and he'd expect you to take him to our local cafe/wine bar and buy him a juice and cake

oh and no dd's name not silly though her nickname is Weezle and I do get odd looks shouting that.

It is a risk of using an unusual or silly name that you will end up with some twit in Eastenders called by that name the week after you register it.

I am frantically going through characters in Lord of the Rings to find a somewhat sane name now

ooo is it Boromir?

Its a SHE Twig....

arwen?

Maude and Blanche - sounds as if someone had been reading "Persuasion". Though I think Maud in "Persuasion" has the more usual 'e'-less spelling.

oh then not half as much fun

Eowyn or Morwen I reckon .. quite pretty though I'm not totally sure I know how to pronounce the first

galadriel???

Lobelia?

My boys' names aren't that wanky though one is quite unusual and more common among 50 year olds, so people are sometimes surprised to see a small blond thing respond.

yes my DD's name is utterly twatty
don't care though

can I just say thanks for the laugh wantababyNOW - Gaye Hooker - that is a fabulous name

I keep seeing the same woman who shouts "merlin". honestly i have to hold myself together.

old (elderly) neighbours had a labrador called Tosser. Used to wet myself laughing when they called him in for his food

no they would think " what the fuck did she say?"

cos to southerners we always have to say things twice - until we know them a little

theres a kid at ds's school called merlin!

Yuck we don't eat bacon!

heard a "Noah" today
wantes to sing" whol built the ark"

Thank you Fio and Twig.