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Help[Opinions] Re: Gypsy
in reply to a message by noisynora
Unfortunately has been used as a real name and... it shouldn't. I'd like it if it wasn't a racial slur as it gives me images of carnivals and gemstones and crystal balls and probably smells like lavender and jasmine scented incense sticks. I recognise those associations are probably bad stereotypes, but in a vacuum, they're pluses in favour of a name.
I still have her, but I had gotten a stuffed black cat with this name on her collar when I was very young, on holiday to Blackpool. Suppose I should change hr name, but I'm unlikely to remember an official change now that I'm 26.
It's a very... 1970s choice of a name I think, one that is relatively uninformed but existed in a time of changing ideals; as in travellers (also known as "Gyppos" to my racist older relatives) I think became less of a bad image during the "make peace and not war man" era, and I think the nomadic lifestyle had an appeal to these young fresh hippies. Naming their kids this probably came from more of an acceptance angle than a racist one - at the time at least. Now there's no excuse!
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"one particular boogie will move mirror massaging with stirring crepe mixture, positioning loaves while in the furnace then toting items in containers" ~ best Russian daing sites (guest, 198.144.149.xxx) (2020)
I still have her, but I had gotten a stuffed black cat with this name on her collar when I was very young, on holiday to Blackpool. Suppose I should change hr name, but I'm unlikely to remember an official change now that I'm 26.
It's a very... 1970s choice of a name I think, one that is relatively uninformed but existed in a time of changing ideals; as in travellers (also known as "Gyppos" to my racist older relatives) I think became less of a bad image during the "make peace and not war man" era, and I think the nomadic lifestyle had an appeal to these young fresh hippies. Naming their kids this probably came from more of an acceptance angle than a racist one - at the time at least. Now there's no excuse!
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"one particular boogie will move mirror massaging with stirring crepe mixture, positioning loaves while in the furnace then toting items in containers" ~ best Russian daing sites (guest, 198.144.149.xxx) (2020)
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Has anyone ever been named Gypsy in the UK at all? Is there a way to find out?
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I've never met a person named Gypsy, but I'd imagine so at least once.
Unfortunately proper birth records only start in 1996 so you're out of luck there if you wanted to sift through earlier records. An easy way might be searching facebook with the location set to England. But considering I got a stuffed kitty named "Gypsy" in the late 90s(?), the name must have been in use to some extent. At least on pets.
In a similar vein I had submitted a name my cousin used for her daughter, Siouxie. Somebody edited the entry later to mention that it's an offensive name to the Sioux Nation :V I highly doubt she'd have known that as she named her after the band...
Unfortunately proper birth records only start in 1996 so you're out of luck there if you wanted to sift through earlier records. An easy way might be searching facebook with the location set to England. But considering I got a stuffed kitty named "Gypsy" in the late 90s(?), the name must have been in use to some extent. At least on pets.
In a similar vein I had submitted a name my cousin used for her daughter, Siouxie. Somebody edited the entry later to mention that it's an offensive name to the Sioux Nation :V I highly doubt she'd have known that as she named her after the band...
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