A false alarm had the girl called Felicity last week, I rubbed my hands together with glee—Felicity was not on our list! Now Harper Seven has been brought into the world and my twitter timeline is littered with both approvals and virtual smirking, with most agreeing that 'Harper' is quite nice but not really digging the 'Seven' bit. There was even some unkind fellows suggesting that it sounded like 'Half-past Seven', obviously being the mature, Beckhams loving person that I am, I didn't laugh—much. Personally, Harper sounds too much like Harpic to my mind and Harpic Seven could be some kind of industrial strength loo cleaner.
But I did get to thinking about naming children numbers, it's not without its plus sides. If you've got a few kids, like the Beckhams, and are somewhat forgetful when it comes to folk's names, like myself, then numbers could work.
As we are yet still very undecided about a name for our unborn daughter, I quick as a flash asked t'husband what his football shirt number was, after much deliberating he decided that he also worn number 7, or sometimes a 4.
Well obviously seven is out... can't be seen to copying the Beckhams, how chavy is that! But thinking on, Four could be mistaken for 'For', and that could be very confusing. Back to the numbers board then, or twitter for some help in this matter.
Hmmm, Eleventy Six, hang on though... how will that be pronounced in Catalan? "Elebenty-Seesh", nah that doesn't really work. In fact very few English numbers worked particularly well in either Spanish or Catalan, trust me I'm sad enough to have sat here and worked through them. 40 and 50 were players, although coupled with our surname it did rather sound like someone was asking for a quantity of cigarettes, and our name isn't Benson or Lambert.
A-ha! We could use Spanish or Catalan numbers. Cuatro has a nice ring to it, as does Ocho. But the child will be a Catalan so really Spanish numbers are out. So what do you think? I'm rather toying with the idea of Trenta or maybe Disset?
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