Most pretentious name you've heard?

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Anonymous wrote:St John (pronounced stin-gin)
Philada

If they pronounced it Stin-gin, they were mispronouncing it. It's Sin-jin.

Also, are you sure it wasn't Phyllida?

PP here. You've correct, it's pronounced Sin Jin.

But they do spell it Philada. Father is a literature professor

This one takes the cake. Sin-jin indeed.
How do they pronounce Philada-- Fellata?

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I'm planning on using one of the names listed here but it's both a family name and we aren't of american descent. So I think context and culture has a lot to do with whether a name is pretentious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Augustus

I actually love this. If I didn't already have Julius, I might be lobbying for it this time around.

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This one takes the cake. Sin-jin indeed.
How do they pronounce Philada-- Fellata?

I'm guessing that you haven't read Jane Eyre. Or you can watch one of the many, many filmed versions -- I recommend the 2006 BBC TV version, with Toby Stephens as Mr. Rochester, ooh la la.

[Anonymous]

Brinley

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Anonymous wrote:Paddington and Hermione

Huh? someone who loves english kid lit. Not what I think of as pretentious esp since both characters are of modest background.

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For me, pretentious is naming a kid after some literary character or intellectual figure that is really meant to show off how cultured the parents are. That, or giving them french names pronounced in a french accent when you are not french. If you can combine both, you win! (In fact a relative of mine has managed this. But they actually do live in such an extremely rarified intellectual bubble that it probably does not matter.)

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Anonymous wrote:Paddington and Hermione

Huh? someone who loves english kid lit. Not what I think of as pretentious esp since both characters are of modest background.

Yes, I'm tickled by the idea that it's pretentious to name a child after a small bear in a duffel coat, named after a London train station, who regularly covers himself with jam.

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It's marmalade!

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Anonymous wrote:It's marmalade!

be right back, have to go check...

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Anonymous wrote:It's marmalade!

be right back, have to go check...

OK, I'm back, you're right, what he loves is marmalade, but he'll cover himself with jam instead if there isn't any marmalade.

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Anonymous wrote:Paddington and Hermione

Huh? someone who loves english kid lit. Not what I think of as pretentious esp since both characters are of modest background.

Yes, I'm tickled by the idea that it's pretentious to name a child after a small bear in a duffel coat, named after a London train station, who regularly covers himself with jam.

I don't think paddington is pretentious, but I do think its a bit silly. Go bigger -- Heathrow or Schipol.

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Anonymous wrote:Paddington and Hermione

Huh? someone who loves english kid lit. Not what I think of as pretentious esp since both characters are of modest background.

Yes, I'm tickled by the idea that it's pretentious to name a child after a small bear in a duffel coat, named after a London train station, who regularly covers himself with jam.

I don't think paddington is pretentious, but I do think its a bit silly. Go bigger -- Heathrow or Schipol.

OMG Heathrow would be the BEST! Please please let's start a trend of international airport babynames. That would be a new front in tweeness/pretentiousness.

I can see an O'Hare, a Heathrow, Hartsfield, and .... wait for it ... IDLEWILD. I will pay $1000 to anyone who names their child Idlewild. It is just so PERFECT.

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Mercedes. Who names their kid that????

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Anonymous wrote:

I don't think paddington is pretentious, but I do think its a bit silly. Go bigger -- Heathrow or Schipol.

OMG Heathrow would be the BEST! Please please let's start a trend of international airport babynames. That would be a new front in tweeness/pretentiousness.

I can see an O'Hare, a Heathrow, Hartsfield, and .... wait for it ... IDLEWILD. I will pay $1000 to anyone who names their child Idlewild. It is just so PERFECT.

Only for children conceived a mile high.