Anonymous
Post 12/24/2014 11:45     Subject: Re:Most pretentious name you've heard?
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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.
Anonymous
Post 12/24/2014 11:45     Subject: Re:Most pretentious name you've heard?
Mercedes. Who names their kid that????
Anonymous
Post 12/24/2014 11:43     Subject: Re:Most pretentious name you've heard?
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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.
Anonymous
Post 12/24/2014 11:38     Subject: Re:Most pretentious name you've heard?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 12/24/2014 11:38     Subject: Re:Most pretentious name you've heard?
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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.
Anonymous
Post 12/24/2014 11:35     Subject: Re:Most pretentious name you've heard?
Anonymous wrote:It's marmalade!


be right back, have to go check...
Anonymous
Post 12/24/2014 11:33     Subject: Re:Most pretentious name you've heard?
It's marmalade!
Anonymous
Post 12/24/2014 11:32     Subject: Re:Most pretentious name you've heard?
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 12/24/2014 11:31     Subject: Most pretentious name you've heard?
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.)
Anonymous
Post 12/24/2014 11:21     Subject: Re:Most pretentious name you've heard?
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.
Anonymous
Post 12/24/2014 11:06     Subject: Most pretentious name you've heard?
Brinley
Anonymous
Post 12/24/2014 11:05     Subject: Most pretentious name you've heard?
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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
Post 12/24/2014 11:02     Subject: Most pretentious name you've heard?
Anonymous wrote:Augustus


I actually love this. If I didn't already have Julius, I might be lobbying for it this time around.
Anonymous
Post 12/24/2014 10:56     Subject: Most pretentious name you've heard?
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
Post 12/24/2014 10:55     Subject: 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?