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If you could have picked your own name, what would it be?
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<blockquote data-quote="nlj" data-source="post: 664869" data-attributes="member: 17650"><p>It's the same working in schools. The 'best' one I had was Na-A (pronounced <em>Na dash a</em> get it?). ???? Isn't that crap? Could they not spell Natasha? Or were they trying to be clever but achieving the complete opposite? Poor kid.</p><p></p><p>We had a few called after TV characters and then the ones who can't think for themselves but call them after footballers' kids or royal sprogs. Chardonnay was a favourite for a while too. Why would you call your kid after a bottle of wine? </p><p></p><p>It's a bit of a snobbish thing though, this looking down on people because of the names they give their children. It's a shame that the stereotypes are mostly correct though because it does tend to reinforce the snobbish element of it.</p><p></p><p>My mother has a Spanish name but her mother anglicised it when they came to the UK after World War 2, because there was a stigma attached to 'foreign' names at that time. This was a common practice amongst many immigrant families to the UK and also the US I think. I think that's quite sad.</p><p></p><p>"What's in a name?" as Shakespeare said, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nlj, post: 664869, member: 17650"] It's the same working in schools. The 'best' one I had was Na-A (pronounced [I]Na dash a[/I] get it?). ???? Isn't that crap? Could they not spell Natasha? Or were they trying to be clever but achieving the complete opposite? Poor kid. We had a few called after TV characters and then the ones who can't think for themselves but call them after footballers' kids or royal sprogs. Chardonnay was a favourite for a while too. Why would you call your kid after a bottle of wine? It's a bit of a snobbish thing though, this looking down on people because of the names they give their children. It's a shame that the stereotypes are mostly correct though because it does tend to reinforce the snobbish element of it. My mother has a Spanish name but her mother anglicised it when they came to the UK after World War 2, because there was a stigma attached to 'foreign' names at that time. This was a common practice amongst many immigrant families to the UK and also the US I think. I think that's quite sad. "What's in a name?" as Shakespeare said, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet". [/QUOTE]
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