Is this old news?

[girlsteve.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I've been away from LJ and life as we know it for the better part of three months, and I apologise if everyone has already seen this, but I thought of you lot when it popped up.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8243684.stm

Comments

[jenufa.livejournal.com]

Not seen that one, but wow, I'm surprised how many "C" names are thought to be bad kids. Glad I didn't want my kid to be one of those CJ/DJ/BJ/etc kids (our last name ends in J) because I'm sure it would have been a C we picked!

Also very weird that you have all these normal names, then randomly you get "Chardonnay", what the hell? Lol. :)

[ikielove.livejournal.com]

I thought the same thing. Normal, normal, normal, BAM Chardonnay. I think her parent's are much naughtier for naming her that to be honest:)

[jordle.livejournal.com]

My sister Courtney is the nerdiest, Boring goody-too-shoes person to walk the earth. She would have been a teacher's dream!

[gaspardgroupie.livejournal.com]

Chardonnay was the name of a character on a TV programme called 'Footballers Wives'. People tend to use it as an example of a classic 'chav' name.

...this is really hard to explain. Someone British help me out please!

[rachie-01.livejournal.com]

I can't get the link at the moment, but go to Urbandictionary and type in "chav". I too thought it was one of those kinds of names, ugh.

[girlsteve.livejournal.com]

I think it's the fact that the general trends in the UK are generally more 'normal' than elsewhere - names like Charlotte and Hannah and Rebecca have never really gone out of fashion, there was always a few in every class, and you don't tend to get nearly as many cre8tiv names here - but we have a couple. They tend to be associated with lower class thugs (so affectionately referred to as 'chavs' in Blighty) and people with no class. And Chardonnay, thanks to a trashy TV series, has become one of those token 'chav' names. Like you might use Brandy or Starla as an over-the-top example of a red-neck or a stripper name. Trouble is, some people actually use them, and apparently they have horrible kids.

[gaspardgroupie.livejournal.com]

Yes, this is basically what I was trying to say. The thoughts in my head were far too garbled to form a coherent comment.


You're right, we do seem to have more 'normal' names over here.

[jeweledvixen.livejournal.com]

Ahh, ok. I wondered why there would be enough girls named Chardonnay to register on this poll. It's just such an odd name to be that popular. That explains it.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

as a teacher I do this... a lot... I look at my list and pin point the students out by names and my coworkers do it too... sometimes we snicker around and boy do we looove names that are spelled wrong... we tend to have a laugh to ourselves... never in front of the kids. That would not be nice since it's not their faults their parents can't spell.