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HelpRe: people, this is a troll (m)
in reply to a message by Billina
Yes a chav is someone who is roughly the British equivalent of trailer trash. Chav / chavvy are terms you'd use to be rude about someone who is lower class. It's not nice, but I do sometimes use it, depending on who I'm talking about and to.
To add to Rox Star's post, although Courtney might have an upper-class vibe in the US, surnames as first names don't here, so Courtney, which probably became popular after Courtney Cox and Courtney Love became famous could be seen as lower-class / chavvy here. I don't know any personally, but the kind of people I see on TV or know of who have named their kids that, do fall into that stereotype.
To add to Rox Star's post, although Courtney might have an upper-class vibe in the US, surnames as first names don't here, so Courtney, which probably became popular after Courtney Cox and Courtney Love became famous could be seen as lower-class / chavvy here. I don't know any personally, but the kind of people I see on TV or know of who have named their kids that, do fall into that stereotype.
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Back in 1975, I began babysitting for a couple who had at that time, two daughters, one three years old when I began babysitting for them and one seven months old. The seven-month-old was named Courtney. It wasn't such a common name then, just beginning to be popular. This couple was definitely upper-class, the husband was a stockbroker in New York and they could afford for the wife to be a stay-at-home mother. They had enough disposable income that they could afford to pay me to babysit every Friday and Saturday night so they could socialize, every Sunday from May to October so they could play golf, and for a few hours every Tuesday and Thursday during the summer so the wife could run errands without her kids. Their house was admittedly not huge, during the time I was babysitting for them, but they did own it and it was located in one of the most desirable areas in the country, an upper-middle-class suburb of New York, one of the most expensive areas in the country to live. About three years after I started babysitting for them, they bought a much bigger house in a nearby town, one which was just as expensive to live in and just as desirable as my hometown.
So, yeah, that was them and they named their daughter Courtney when she was born in 1974. Makes me think that Courtney did start out upper-class.
I like how this stupid troll actually started a conversation!
So, yeah, that was them and they named their daughter Courtney when she was born in 1974. Makes me think that Courtney did start out upper-class.
I like how this stupid troll actually started a conversation!
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Yes, she tried very hard to rile everyone up, but she ended up sparking an interesting discussion on class and naming trends instead. Poor troll. Poor, poor troll. ;)
This message was edited 1/18/2014, 8:54 AM
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