Hyacinth, Daisy, Violet, Rose. After all these years of watching the show.
shareThey were indeed all named after flowers. And that reminds me of "Harry Potter", where Harry's mother and aunt were named Lily and Petunia.
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You might want to sit down for this: She wanted her last name to be pronounce bouquet!
If you have caught your breath and not too dizzy from shock, notice all her dresses have flowers on them.
Everyone has some kind of flower garden.
Oh, you have got be started.
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Was Hyancinth's maiden name ever mentioned? She changed the pronounciation to "Bouquet" when she married but Richard insisted that it was "Bucket" and always had been.
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Interestingly enough though, Hyacinth has traditionally been a boys name not a girls name (after St Hyacinth who was a man). If you wanted to feminize the name you would've called the girl Hyacintha or Hyacinthia.
I do wonder if it was deliberate on the writers behalf.
That is funny, as a flower name usually will be a girl's name. Then again, Narcissus also was a boy's name.
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Hyacinth is traditionally a female name in the UK. Lots of old ladies still have it. True it originated as a male name (from ancient Greek terminology, not a saint), but it has traditionally been female here for centuries. No reason for the writers to consider the gender of it when they chose it.
The mirror... it's broken.
Yes, I know. I like it that way. Makes me look the way I feel.
If that blew your mind, try The Darling Buds of May.
The SAME thing!