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  • Bizarre Victorian fact of the day…

    Names which Victorian parents gave their children included ‘Wonderful’, ‘Lettuce’, ‘Despair’, ‘Energetic’ and ‘Murder’.

    Tagged: 19th century britain british childhood england names victorian vintage etymology

    Posted on January 15, 2012 with 332 notes

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      And we thought “Apple” was bad.
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      I see you crazy Victorian era names and give you Puritan names (link):
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      Dude, I’d read it! DO EET.
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      I would happily read any or all of the Misadventures of Murder St Vincent. Please be writing these now oh yes.
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      If I lived in Victorian times I would totally call my daughter “Catastrophe.” Except not in modern times because oh god...
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      sleuth… Man if nobody else writes this
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      “The Misadventures of Murder St. Vincent” DO WANT Also, postcard, NOW I AM CURIOUS. How ostentatiously, pretentiously...
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      a fantastic name.
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