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    Image of CurtCole CurtCole
    05/14/09

    In reply to R.I.P. Margaret Gelling
    Alnmouth
    Bedwyn
    Lacock
    Shrewsbury
    ...these are my favorite.
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    Image of LAmonkeygirl LAmonkeygirl
    05/14/09

    @CurtCole: I've even been to Lacock and Shrewsbury! Lacock Abbey served as some Hogwarts locations and Lacock Village was used as Hogsmeade. Very picturesque, despite the name.


    Doesn't Bedwyn sound like an awesome name for someone? You could call them "Bed" for short.

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    Image of CurtCole CurtCole
    05/14/09

    @LAmonkeygirl: Yeah, I think that is what I am going to call my boyfriend after a really good romp.
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    Image of LAmonkeygirl LAmonkeygirl
    05/14/09

    In reply to R.I.P. Margaret Gelling
    I absolutely love English place names.


    Merkin-Upon-Taint

    Crotchfield Green

    Greatsnatch

    Lower Asshat

    Upper Eschalon

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    Image of Mary McCarthyite Mary McCarthyite
    05/14/09

    @LAmonkeygirl: OK, it took me until "Lower Asshat" to know you were joking. I'm gonna blame the jet lag on that mental blip...
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    Image of marshmallory marshmallory
    05/14/09

    @LAmonkeygirl: Merkin-Upon-Taint. You win.
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    Image of Kali Mama Kali Mama
    05/14/09

    @marshmallory wants to gobble and prance.: The main shopping street is situated on the cauter waulk.
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    Image of the dodo, the cuckoo, and the nene the dodo, the cuckoo, and the nene
    05/14/09

    @LAmonkeygirl: I always enjoyed the names of Tube stops. Tooting Bec, Epping, Neasden,e tc.
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    Image of Mary McCarthyite Mary McCarthyite
    05/14/09

    In reply to R.I.P. Margaret Gelling
    English PLace-Names are...rather evocative!


    [www.s-gabriel.org]


    Drax: could be the name of the next Jolie-Pitt

    Cockermouth: pretty self-explanatory

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    Image of randomnessish randomnessish
    05/14/09

    @Mary McCarthyite: Hello, my name is Sir Biggleswade, and I would love to have your acquaintance.
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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    05/09/09

    In reply to What's In A Name?
    These are all such White names.
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    Image of NellMood NellMood
    05/08/09

    In reply to What's In A Name?
    As an Emma I am deeply disappointed to read this. Luckily I have never ever been called Emma and have always gone by my middle name, which I'm pretty sure won't be reaching #1 anytime soon.
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    Image of Academy Queen Academy Queen
    05/08/09

    In reply to What's In A Name?
    My mother named me Gretchen and for a long time I wish she hadn't.


    I always favored long grand names like Anastasia or Alexandra, Russian Empress names...


    So I named my daughter Maia.

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    Image of TheGuvnah TheGuvnah
    05/08/09

    @Academy Queen: i have not a drop of russian blood in me but LOVE russian names...anastasia is my fave.
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    Image of I'm Chuck Bass I'm Chuck Bass
    05/08/09

    In reply to What's In A Name?
    I swear to god I am not making this up. I very briefly worked in child protection and there were newborn twins in the program. Their names were Lucifer Satan and Leviticus. And Leviticus was a girl.
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    Image of ElleL ElleL
    05/08/09

    In reply to What's In A Name?
    I knew kids name Limonjelo and Oranjelo. Named AFTER the mothers favorite JELLO FLAVORS.


    LEMON JELLO and ORANGE JELLO.

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    Image of AllThatYaz AllThatYaz
    05/08/09

    @ElleL: No, you didn't. Urban legend.
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    Image of ElleL ElleL
    05/08/09

    @AllThatYaz: I SWEAR I met these kids when I was young! I really hope I didnt fall prey to that!
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    Image of stacyinbean stacyinbean
    05/08/09

    In reply to What's In A Name?
    Also, a good friends' son has a boy in his afterschool program named God. Straight up, G-O-D.
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    Image of NewsBunny NewsBunny
    05/08/09

    @stacyinbean: He must be hard to yell at.
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    Image of NewsBunny NewsBunny
    05/08/09

    In reply to What's In A Name?
    I hate it when you find a name you like for any future children and then you meet someone is a total dick/bitch with the SAME NAME, ruining it forever.
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    Image of ElleL ElleL
    05/08/09

    In reply to What's In A Name?
    I have always loved the name Grace, as it is my Grandmother's name. But lately it is way too popular for my taste. Argh.
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    Image of stacyinbean stacyinbean
    05/08/09

    @ElleL: YES. I even have the damn word tattooed on my body b/c I love the meaning and how it looks AND I wanted it to be the name of my first daughter. Now, not so much.
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    Image of Chivone Chivone
    05/08/09

    In reply to What's In A Name?
    I always liked taking a popular girl's name and naming a boy it, or vice versa. I am biased because my name is a boy's name and my dad had a really girly name but i know a couple of female Kyles, a female Elijah, and a boy named Siobhan. I think it adds something to the name when you have to take away from it the gender norm associated with it.
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    Image of ElleL ElleL
    05/08/09

    @Chivone: I love the name Peyton for a girl. But then One Tree Hill came along and ruined it.
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    Image of aShinyGumWrapper aShinyGumWrapper
    05/08/09

    @Chivone: Gotta admit, I hate it when people name girl's boys names.
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    Image of LolaQuinn is full of beans LolaQuinn is full of beans
    05/08/09

    @aShinyGumWrapper: Not even Elliott, like in Scrubs! That's my favorite boy-turned-girl name.


    Also, a boy named Sue.

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    Image of Sodypop Sodypop
    05/08/09

    In reply to What's In A Name?
    I mentioned earlier that the name Lola is officially out of my list of names for my hypothetical girl. It went from 752 to 246 in only 5/6 years. Plus now there is going to be a perfume.
    Too bad...
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    Image of LolaQuinn is full of beans LolaQuinn is full of beans
    05/08/09

    @Sodypop: I too am disturbed by the growing popularity of all my favorite "unique" names, Lola included. So I just made it my Jezzie name and I figure I'll find a better one for lil' LolaQuinn when the time comes :)
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    Image of gherkinfiend gherkinfiend
    05/08/09

    In reply to What's In A Name?
    My given name is Sarah, but I changed it to a diminutive version of my middle name when I was 7.


    There were 7 Sarahs, a Sarah Jane and a Sara in my my class and I didn't care to be initialled any longer, so I thought changing my name made perfect sense. My parents thought they were humouring me.


    23 years later, I have almost forgotten I was ever Sarah...I love my 'new' name so much.

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    Image of emilyanne emilyanne
    05/08/09

    @gherkinfiend: i'm going to hold my hand up now and admit to being a Sarah. There were seven of them in my primary class at school too, not to mention five or six at my secondary and more than I could mention at university. I always had my surname attached to my name and loathed it. Also my middle name was equally boring so there was no escaping it. It's only now that I don't mind it as a name.
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    Image of gherkinfiend gherkinfiend
    05/08/09

    @emilyanne: I actually think it's a beautiful name now that I'm older. I would definitely include it in my hypothetical daughter's name...


    I was just a pretentious brat aged 7. Strangely I despise my middle name in full, but love the shortened version...which is what my mum wanted to call me (unknown to me!) but it wasn't acceptable to use shortened names as real names in 1970s Ireland. I'm surprised they didn't call me Serendipity in the end...

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    Image of emilyanne emilyanne
    05/08/09

    @gherkinfiend: my dad being Irish actually wanted to call me Saoirse but my mum didn't think that the Irish for freedom was the best choice in 1973.
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    Image of kelsium kelsium
    05/08/09

    In reply to What's In A Name?
    Also, I went to high school in Hippie Central and knew an Ariel Stardust, who was male. Just sayin'.
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