BEETROOT!

Have pm-ed you a fuller explanation, gillybob.

I am soooooo confused thatbags It is almost like a puzzle.

Dare I ask her name?

My DD has always called my youngest DGD (Gracie, her neice) Popsie. She loves it and is quite huffed when DD calls her by her proper name.

Hillary, Shirley and Tracey all come from surnames, I believe, so they would, at least initially, be exclusively male names.

I rather like the freedom-to-give-your-kids-bonkers-names of the English-speaking countries.

We actually chose Minibags's name because of a nickname I gave her after a scan. It was the name of one of the people (an uncommon surname) who wrote the software to do measurements of limbs and so on during an ultrasound scan. We wanted to carry on calling her that after she was born so we had to find a name that was doable with it. She has a classic Latin name, a shortened version of which we now call her but we called her by the nickname until she went to school, after which she wanted to be called by her proper name.

I am really quite sad that her name isn't really Beetroot!

So no Sam, Chris,Gill, Jo(e) either JackyB ?

Here in Germany you certainly aren't allowed to give a child a name which isn't approved by the registrar. Also it must unambiguously show the sex of the owner.

So no Vivians or Hilarys or Beverleys (which, I remember, back in the day were both boys' and girls' names, as opposed to Lesley/Leslie) Also, less than 200 years ago, apparently, Shirley was exclusively a boy's name. As was Trac(e)y.

jings you're crazy like out !

(I'm glad we don't have to type embarassed/embarresed/embarrassed when we want that emoticon)

Shoot!!!

(I did wonder about, after I posted) )

Nobs without the k, jings. When you add the k it changes the meaning completely.

Hilarious

Oh this is so funny! Who would have thought it?

#crikey #wholenewlightongransnet #mixingwiththeknobs

Haha! Awww thank you merlotgran

Just watched it on Catch Up. Couldn't help thinking of Del Boy when they were cleaning that chandelier?

What a fab house!

Brother is Rawle

Goodness are we mixing with the great and the good? Brushing shoulders with those in power. So is the brother Raoul then please? Or Rollo.

Oh that's a relief! Nicknames can come about for all sorts of reasons and sometimes they really stick fast. I was at school with a girl called Donkey (from her surname I think, but not sure) and another called Sid (from her little sister trying to say 'sister'}. Both girls' nicknames had completely replaced their given names, by all friends and family.

gillybob

Ooooops jeez I didn't see that one coming. Sorry Virginia

Perhaps she was a particularly red faced child phoenix and the name is entirely appropriate.

Hi gransnetters, Beetroot from Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners is my little sister - and I can confirm (well done AshTree), that Beetroot is a nickname in reference to her hair colour. Her actual name is Beatrix

Talking of beetroot, I was served a 'golden' beetroot fritter yesterday. I didn't know they existed, but golden it was and tasted just like beetroot. (just thought I'd throw that in, a propos of nothing )

I met my cousin's new grandson at the weekend. He is called 'Beck Otter Hamish' but all day they called him 'Badger' He is a lovely wee boy though!!

Beetroot as I have said on here before is the devils vegetable second only to parsnip in its horror!!! Poor child when I had DD2 I had a very old fashioned very Irish doctor who stood at the end of my bed in the mat unit and said' if you've called that child a ridiculous name I wont got and see it'. He was very satisfied when I told him her names one ancient Greek and one French beauty both saints as well I think. I do think you have to consider that the child's name needs to carry them through life and what is cute and quirky at 3 becomes difficult when you're trying to carve out a career and be taken seriously