What's in a name?

[jim]

Not quite on subject but .....
During my years teaching I have come across some combinations which either show parents don't think when naming offspring or have a warped sense of humour. eg One sweet little girl with the surname Lettice had been christened Juliet. One boy I recall had been the christian names Richard Edmond (try the diminutives!) However I did come across a mother who insisted her married surname was pronounced "OSH Itt", even though it was spelt O'Sh..t To have been born with that name is unfortunate to have married into it and taken the name deliberately shows she must have really loved him!

Love and Peace
Jim

[Millymollymandy]

Jim that's brilliant although osh-itt sounds like horse poo anyway!

In this part of Brittany there are tons of people with the surname BASTARD.

[grahamhobbs]

Embarrasingly I was called Gay by my family and my sisters were Les and Ron, real names Graham, Leslie, and Veronica.

[frozenthunderbolt]

Realy im Jeremy but am allmost always called Jed, except by school mates and uni mates who (independantly) christened me jezza.
What was realy freeky though was one bloke who barely knew me and forgot my name and called me daniel or D. Daniel being my middle name this was rather disconcerting!

[chilitony]

my real name is Antony, but when i had to go to court for none payment of fine, was asked if i was Anthony........
so i replied no i'm Antony........the three magitrates and the cleark all crossed out the "H" at the same time.
When i got the letter from them it still said "Anthony"

[ElizabethBinary]

My fiancee's lawyer is Richard King.... Dicking. (If I had a lawyer that would be the name I wanted! Or maybe Wyn Ning)

His daughter is named Jackie A. C. King. Jacking.

Awesome.

[Milims]

What was realy freeky though was one bloke who barely knew me and forgot my name and called me daniel or D. Daniel being my middle name this was rather disconcerting!

Quite often when I've met someone and they've forgotten my name they call me by my sisters name even when there is absolutely NO WAY they could have known it! Now that's freaky!

[mrsflibble]

when i told my huby about this thread he said he found it wierd when he started using computers at school because all these files had the first three of his initials after them, and he was trying to fathom why the hell they all had his initials on... until he realised it didn't stand for James Peter George, it stood for Joint Photography Experts Group and had nothing to do with him.

[sleepyowl]

My fiancee's lawyer is Richard King.... Dicking. (If I had a lawyer that would be the name I wanted! Or maybe Wyn Ning)

His daughter is named Jackie A. C. King. Jacking.

Awesome.

If you think that is bad on of my best mates is a Mr I. Swallow, if you ask him whether he does he gets annoyed

[pumpy]

I knew a couple whose surname is "Downe", they had twin sons & christened them "Neil" & "Ben"........... to this day i'm not sure they realised the irony.

[Penny Lane]

My parents named me Sara but pronounce it with the H on the end.
All through school I had teachers and classmates asking "is it Sara or Sarah?"and constantly calling me Sara(noH). When I started my first job I had to go through it all again and decided to just go by Sara(noH) and that's what I'm known by by everyone, except my family.
It was a bit confusing for my husband at first to know me as Sara and then hear my family call me Sarah!

[Millymollymandy]

OK Penny (talk about confusion!) please can you tell me what the difference is because for the life of me I have never heard the name Sara or Sarah have the H pronounced. It just isn't physically possible!

Do you mean Sare-a (like Tara) as opposed to Saer-a (like bearer)?

[theabsinthefairy]

Our local estate agents in the UK were called Doolittle & Dalley . Honestly - here is the link http://www.doolittle-dalley.co.uk/ to prove it!

[Penny Lane]

OK Penny (talk about confusion!) please can you tell me what the difference is because for the life of me I have never heard the name Sara or Sarah have the H pronounced. It just isn't physically possible!

Do you mean Sare-a (like Tara) as opposed to Saer-a (like bearer)?

lol!
Sorry to confuse you MMM!

You're right - Sarah sounds like bearer, and Sara like Tara... that's all!

It doesn't seem like a big difference I know but after a while/few years it gets annoying!

And THEN there's the American prounciation that sounds like 'Serrah' but that's a whole different story

[Penny Lane]

Our local estate agents in the UK were called Doolittle & Dalley . Honestly - here is the link http://www.doolittle-dalley.co.uk/ to prove it!

You just reminded me of an estate agents near us called Crook & Blight, it makes me giggle everytime I see a house for sale through them!