Anonymous
Post 12/28/2014 18:50     Subject: Most pretentious name you've heard?
Anonymous wrote:Andrea, pronounced AHN-DREA. And the person is a fittingly pretentious New Yorker who thinks anything outside of Manhattan is provincial and unworthy of notice.


I think I know her. But isn't she from the valley? She likes to pal around with Brandon right?
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2014 18:26     Subject: Most pretentious name you've heard?
Andrea, pronounced AHN-DREA. And the person is a fittingly pretentious New Yorker who thinks anything outside of Manhattan is provincial and unworthy of notice.
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2014 18:20     Subject: Re:Most pretentious name you've heard?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Mercedes. Who names their kid that????



So I am confused. Is the name pretentious or a stripper name (from previous DCUM threads)???

Signed
A Mercedes


If you are anything other than Latina then it's stripper.


Oh, have you met many strippers named Mercedes?

I will never, never, ever understand DCUM's naming obsession with strippers.
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2014 17:52     Subject: Most pretentious name you've heard?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Beatrix and her sister Genevieve pronounced ONLY the French pronunciation..and they aren't actually French.


No way ! That is hysterical


Shouldn't the other girl have been Beatrice if they were going full Frenchy on the Genevieve? Beatrix makes me think of Beatrix Potter.


Yeah I thought it was weird then they started talking super pretentiously about it so I stopped listening.


Ok, please explain to me how the French pronunciation differs from the America English one? I speak French (and British English) and am not aware of a difference, for either name.


Not sure about Beatrix I assume Bay-ah-tricks instead of Bee-ah-tricks
But Genevieve is Jean (rhymes with Sean) - Vee - Ev (like the start of ever) rather than Jen -ah-vee-v
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2014 17:35     Subject: Re:Most pretentious name you've heard?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Mercedes. Who names their kid that????



So I am confused. Is the name pretentious or a stripper name (from previous DCUM threads)???

Signed
A Mercedes


If you are anything other than Latina then it's stripper.
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2014 16:57     Subject: Most pretentious name you've heard?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Woodrow Wilson


Millard Fillmore

But in all seriousness, many of these "pretentious" names sound British, so there is a lot if horrid stereotyping going on here. I knew an Aussie Penelope who was totally normal, and Americans named Thaddeus and Preston who were also very middle class if not a bit goofy. These were ask acquaintances from high school or college in the 00's. I never thought their names were pretentious; just unusual.


Woodrow Wilson's first name was Thomas. Woodrow was his middle name and also his mother's maiden name.
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2014 16:48     Subject: Most pretentious name you've heard?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Beatrix and her sister Genevieve pronounced ONLY the French pronunciation..and they aren't actually French.


No way ! That is hysterical


Shouldn't the other girl have been Beatrice if they were going full Frenchy on the Genevieve? Beatrix makes me think of Beatrix Potter.


Yeah I thought it was weird then they started talking super pretentiously about it so I stopped listening.


Ok, please explain to me how the French pronunciation differs from the America English one? I speak French (and British English) and am not aware of a difference, for either name.
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2014 16:46     Subject: Most pretentious name you've heard?
Anonymous wrote:Bronwen


Not pretentious, just a run of the mill Welsh name.
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2014 16:40     Subject: Most pretentious name you've heard?
Anonymous wrote:Thomas pronounced Toe-mas


How else would you pronounce it?
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2014 16:37     Subject: Re:Most pretentious name you've heard?
Anonymous wrote:Mercedes. Who names their kid that????



So I am confused. Is the name pretentious or a stripper name (from previous DCUM threads)???

Signed
A Mercedes
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2014 16:25     Subject: Most pretentious name you've heard?
Bennett Carrington for a girl
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2014 16:20     Subject: Most pretentious name you've heard?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Mercedes


Not pretentious if Latina.


She was the love interest in the Count of Monte Cristo
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2014 15:40     Subject: Most pretentious name you've heard?
Anonymous wrote:Tarquin. Seen on a Sky documentary about Harrow School. I looked this name up, since I'd never heard it before, and apparently it's a British name so poncy and posh that it's essentially a caricature name. None of the British posters discussing the show could believe someone had actually named their child that.


the Elder, or the Proud? (Thanks, Wikipedia!)
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2014 14:28     Subject: Most pretentious name you've heard?
Tarquin. Seen on a Sky documentary about Harrow School. I looked this name up, since I'd never heard it before, and apparently it's a British name so poncy and posh that it's essentially a caricature name. None of the British posters discussing the show could believe someone had actually named their child that.
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2014 08:47     Subject: Most pretentious name you've heard?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Tiberius


I wanted this as our boy middle name. I'm a Trekkie. . We had three girls (and one has a name of a minor character from one of the movies).


I like you.


My husband so wanted Tiberius as a middle name for our son (who has an unusual first name already). Also after captain James t. Kirk.