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[Facts] Re: What are the snobbiest and most old-fashioned English first names, according to you?

by Anneza (guest)

8/1/2002, 1:29 AM

Me too, Rosey! Actually, when I'm in the UK (currency permitting!) I find the most fun in the births column in the Telegraph. Means you've got to buy the Telegraph, of course ... the Guardian just isn't the same! And they used to put birth announcements on their web site, to my lasting joy, but now no longer do.
A couple of years ago I noticed a number of future Telegraph readers got named Poppy if born in November. Is this new? I suspect that while that War was alive in people's memories it wouldn't have happened.

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- Rosey (guest) +1

8/1/2002, 6:09 AM

I hadn't really noticed the timing of the use of the name Poppy, but I'm not too suprised although it's steadily becoming more popular all round. The tv chef Jamie Oliver known as "The Naked Chef" recently named his baby Poppy Honey!

- Anneza (guest)

8/2/2002, 4:18 AM

Gasp! Very culinary, actually - could have been Diane Mignon ... I was at school with a delightful girl whose given names were Alison Margaret Honeybun, but at least she had plenty to dilute the third one with.

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