What did your friends call their kids and you had to stop the snort..

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Ah yes but the English commentator pronounced it Eye-lish!!

teehee!

you will never catch me admitting ds's and dd's names on mn. but - they are traditional names with strong family connections, with absolutely no aspirations to originality.

She wasn't christened Sasha btw, but Alexandra. I think BK and I share a common prejudice against giving children diminutives as names - eg Alfie instead of Alfred.

that'll be john and jane then...

i'm pretty sure we're pronouncing them correctly too - hoho

My little boy's called Hunker and the next one will be called Munker.

aloha, yes, yes, yes - i cannot bear that...

pph, no it is not john and jane but those are the kind of names i like and thorougly approve of... fwiw

feelingold - I have a 2nd cousin (in her 40's) living in Australia called Peta (pronounced Peter).

i thoroughly approve of correctly spelling too btw

gah! correct spelling - deffo time to say good night

there was a recent (very tragic) newspaper report in Derby about a mother who died leaving a child called Versace.

Lourdes-PUUUUURRRRRRRLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEASSSSSE!!!

Am definitely not doing a birth announcement my new baby's called type thread on here.

You'll all be going "Oh, congrats, how lovely" and thinking "Wankers! What a stupid name!"

well we will if you call it munker, that's for sure

Aw, poor little Munker

Don't listen to the nasty ladies. We'll home school you so you never have to meet other children and I'm sure you'll grow up just as normal as your mummy.

Who cares what anyone thinks, hunker? You will never please everyone (as we have all just proved )

lol (one handed typing, can't keep up!)

No, I don't care really - am just a bit careful re names having been told we made a mistake with DS's...

We didn't, btw Hunker is a lovely name.

I love your DDs names too, Lockets

And yes, of course I'll tell you, loon

Hey, are we a clique?

he won't grow up normal, hunker, he'll grow up to be a monk. Munk the Monk. Or possibly a wierd bloke with a chipmunk fetish.... Munk the Munkophile.

It is his destiny

I am very prejudiced about diminutives. Always thought children should be given very grand names which can then be shortened to something sane. Like Polly being called Leopoldina in that Nancy Mitford book.