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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Marsha O'Mahony

'People say I should change my son's name - now I'm starting to regret it'

Anyone who's ever announced the name of their new baby to friends and family will be familiar with the mixed response: delight, joy, quizzical expressions, or downright rudeness. That’s the experience of one new mum, who has appealed for reassurance after people have pointed out how her son's name has a very unfortunate similarity to another crude word.

It’s been hard for her to ignore the attitude of her mother in particular, who has made her feelings about her new grandchild’s name quite clear. Taking to Reddit to explain the situation, the mum said: "We recently had a son and named him Ansel. I've since had two people tell me we might as well have named him "A**hole.

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