Re: FN-FORUM: [ OT ] name changes

date posted 25th March 2003 17:25

My husband really DID go to school with a Russel Sprout - but here in
Scotland you do get some weird names. I on the other hand went to school
with a Glen Miller and a Gordon Bennett - which is entirely meaningless
unless you live in London where it's a kind of profanity.
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From: "Elizabeth Varley" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 4:47 PM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: [ OT ] name changes


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> > My aunt went to a maternity class with a Mr & Mrs Dick. They called
their
> > daughter Orphelia because they liked the name.
> > People like that shouldn't be allowed to have children.
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> I heard that urban myth as a child in Australia - it sure travels, unless
> you really do believe your aunt on this one. Apparently my cousin went to
> school with an Ophelia Dick (or so believed my impressionable 10 year old
> mind at the time).
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> Although one I absolutely know is true was a friend of my father's who
named
> their daughter Deefer (which is a bit of a crap name anyway), but their
> surname was Dattner. *groan*
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> My dad used to joke that it was just as well her middle name wasn't Kate!
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> Elizabeth
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