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Old 07-12-2016, 12:37
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Do you associate certain names with images of people and how you think they might be?

For example, my girlfriend has a mate called Danielle. She's a lovely woman, and said she didn't mind her name when she was growing up, but now she's not keen as it is associated with chavs, or at least people in the DM Sidebar of Shame such as Westbrook and Lloyd, Armstrong from TOWIE and the woman who married Gary Lineker.
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Old 07-12-2016, 12:41
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My mate Adolf has a similar problem.
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Old 07-12-2016, 13:00
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I see Scott as a Chavvy name since literally every Scott I know is a chav.
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Old 07-12-2016, 13:02
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Anyone who's named after a wine I would immediately assume were common as muck. I like to set my expectations low then be pleasantly surprised when they're proved to be incorrect.
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Old 07-12-2016, 13:19
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Certain names which have gone out of fashion I would tend to associate with seniors in the absence of any other information.
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Old 07-12-2016, 13:27
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Certain names which have gone out of fashion I would tend to associate with seniors in the absence of any other information.
I know a baby called Keith. It's hilarious!
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Old 07-12-2016, 16:45
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My daughters middle name is 'Rae' and having been a lurker here for a while, I'm aware anything ending in 'ae' is associated with chavs or disliked.

Oh well. We gave her the name after her great grandfather and it goes lovely with her first name.
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Old 07-12-2016, 16:48
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My daughters middle name is 'Rae' and having been a lurker here for a while, I'm aware anything ending in 'ae' is associated with chavs or disliked.

Oh well. We gave her the name after her great grandfather and it goes lovely with her first name.
I think Rae is a lovely and unusual name. It's not chavvy at all.
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Old 07-12-2016, 17:36
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I think Rae is a lovely and unusual name. It's not chavvy at all.
Thank you
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Old 07-12-2016, 18:41
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I associate you with cheese.
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Old 07-12-2016, 18:47
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My daughters middle name is 'Rae' and having been a lurker here for a while, I'm aware anything ending in 'ae' is associated with chavs or disliked.

Oh well. We gave her the name after her great grandfather and it goes lovely with her first name.
It seems that usually most names (girls, at least) ending in ae are double barrelled.
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Old 07-12-2016, 18:59
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Danniella Westbrook isn't called Danielle. The clue is in the spelling.
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Old 07-12-2016, 22:11
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Do you associate certain names with images of people and how you think they might be?

For example, my girlfriend has a mate called Danielle. She's a lovely woman, and said she didn't mind her name when she was growing up, but now she's not keen as it is associated with chavs, or at least people in the DM Sidebar of Shame such as Westbrook and Lloyd, Armstrong from TOWIE and the woman who married Gary Lineker.
A friend I'm mine has been in a live-in relationship for over a year with a woman named Danielle, she is a lecturer in psychology, and only 32.
I had a girlfriend years ago named Danielle, she was a haematologist at Hammersmith Hospital, I don't think that chavs were invented then, but neither of those two fitted the bill.
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Old 08-12-2016, 09:37
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Danniella Westbrook isn't called Danielle. The clue is in the spelling.
I know that. But it's not far off and it's another version of the same name.
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Old 08-12-2016, 09:38
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A friend I'm mine has been in a live-in relationship for over a year with a woman named Danielle, she is a lecturer in psychology, and only 32.
I had a girlfriend years ago named Danielle, she was a haematologist at Hammersmith Hospital, I don't think that chavs were invented then, but neither of those two fitted the bill.
Danielle we know isn't a chav either - she was commenting on those people in the media.
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Old 08-12-2016, 13:44
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Tracy. Always makes me think of blondes dancing around their handbags at a disco and usually thick too.
Yes, this is my name and no I'm not one of those descriptions.
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Old 08-12-2016, 14:19
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Tracy. Always makes me think of blondes dancing around their handbags at a disco and usually thick too.
Yes, this is my name and no I'm not one of those descriptions.
Same with Sharon and Chantelle
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Old 08-12-2016, 14:22
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any man called toby, oliver or sebastian is pretty much always a nailed on t wat
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Old 08-12-2016, 15:20
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any man called toby, oliver or sebastian is pretty much always a nailed on t wat
I don't know any Tobys, or Sebastians, but I do know two Olivers, one definitely teeters on the edge of t**tdom, the other any woman would be glad to have as a son, or ecstatic to have as a son-in-law.
Sebastian always sounds to me like the hero in a pre-war black and white British movie, or a bounder in an Edwardian novel.
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Old 08-12-2016, 20:48
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I know that. But it's not far off and it's another version of the same name.
Okay. One of my brothers is called Daniel and he isn't a chav, if that helps.
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