Names

[oddoneout]

(Keep them coming - we have not only the characters but almost the entire plot of a new carry on film)

Swindells the accountant(whose services we did not use, preferring Meanley...), and Mr and Mrs Screech the dentists, who ministered to my children when the school dentist service was closed down.
The New Scientist journal had a slot for ND which ran for years - there were some priceless examples on published scientific papers, especially the joint ones.

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Swindells the accountant(whose services we did not use, preferring Meanley...), and Mr and Mrs Screech the dentists, who ministered to my children when the school dentist service was closed down.
The New Scientist journal had a slot for ND which ran for years - there were some priceless examples on published scientific papers, especially the joint ones.

....and randomly, "we" like the way UN Secretaries-General always sound extremely significant - Gladwyn Jebb, Trygvie Lie, Dag Hammarskjöld, U Thant, Kurt Waldheim, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Kofi Annan, Ban Ki-moon and Antonio Guterres - some are more memorable than others but there really isn't a duff name among them.

[Alain Maréchal]

Vennegoor of Hesselink - no Belgian or Netherlander would find anything odd about that. Flemings and Walloons usually just add names on when they marry. I have three! French-Fleming-English, just a small part of my mongrel background. French married women are now required by law to use their unmarried (i.e. their own personal) name.

One of my neighbours is Madame Verge. (francophones will understand)

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Vennegoor of Hesselink - no Belgian or Netherlander would find anything odd about that.

One of my neighbours is Madame Verge. (francophones will understand)

Well, that takes me back to the time when my best footballing friend mentioned him and when I chomped said "what on earth is wrong with that?". Nothing wrong at all.....it's just not the expected in that circle. I'd need Madame Verge explained to me although I know a few Madames - Bovary, George and Yevonde are those that immediately spring to mind,

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I would welcome favourite surnames of classical composers: off the top of my head Blackwood McEwen, Carwithen, Casadesus, Demessieux, Hopekirk, Nono and Tcherepnin.

But there must be many more.

[cloughie]

.....My internet name during a short period on a gardening site was Bob Flowerjuice as a salute to the prettily named Bob Flowerdew.

Gardening has produced some very good names - Percy Thrower, Fred Loads, Bill Sowerbutts and Bunny Guinness to name but a few.

Even Alan Titchmarsh, on paper, is quite cute.

I always thought it a shame that Graeme Garden was not one of their number but Anne Swithinbank not only has a lovely sounding name but also looks good.

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I always thought it a shame that Graeme Garden was not one of their number but Anne Swithinbank not only has a lovely sounding name but also looks good.

Oh yes, Anne Swithinbank, excellent.....and I take the GG point too.

Really, gardeners, it's something about them. I am not sure why but I like the mystery of it.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed - I really appreciate it.

[Serial_Apologist]

My last doctor here was a Dr. Twaddle - I always felt uncomfortable on going up to the receptionist and asking for an appointment to see him. I would pronounce the a as a short, Northern-sounding a, thinking this might somehow not sound as daft. If I were he I certainly would have changed it. I hope he's happy in his transfer to Devon. His replacement is a Dr. Faddy Hardo. I wonder what my next doctor's name is going to be...

[Serial_Apologist]

Well, that takes me back to the time when my best footballing friend mentioned him and when I chomped said "what on earth is wrong with that?". Nothing wrong at all.....it's just not the expected in that circle. I'd need Madame Verge explained to me although I know a few Madames - Bovary, George and Yevonde are those that immediately spring to mind,

You were going to say, you wouldn't grass on them, then you had second thoughts.

[cloughie]

I would welcome favourite surnames of classical composers: off the top of my head Blackwood McEwen, Carwithen, Casadesus, Demessieux, Hopekirk, Nono and Tcherepnin.

But there must be many more.

Balint Bakfark, Werner Egk and Granville Bantock

[Lat-Literal]

My last doctor here was a Dr. Twaddle - I always felt uncomfortable on going up to the receptionist and asking for an appointment to see him. I would pronounce the a as a short, Northern-sounding a, thinking this might somehow not sound as daft. If I were he I certainly would have changed it. I hope he's happy in his transfer to Devon. His replacement is a Dr. Faddy Hardo. I wonder what my next doctor's name is going to be...

No.............that's absolutely brilliant.!!!

[Serial_Apologist]

Well, that takes me back to the time when my best footballing friend mentioned him and when I chomped said "what on earth is wrong with that?". Nothing wrong at all.....it's just not the expected in that circle. I'd need Madame Verge explained to me although I know a few Madames - Bovary, George and Yevonde are those that immediately spring to mind,

I always thought those who named Havergal Brian had got the names in the wrong order.

Sir Arthur Bliss always seemed to fit his ebullient music.

[vinteuil]

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... conductors, too - don't forget Louis George Maurice Adolphe Roche Albert Abel Antonio Alexandre Noë Jean Lucien Daniel Eugène Joseph-le-brun Joseph-Barême Thomas Thomas Thomas-Thomas Pierre Arbon Pierre-Maurel Barthélemi Artus Alphonse Bertrand Dieudonné Emanuel Josué Vincent Luc Michel Jules-de-la-plane Jules-Bazin Julio César Jullien

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Antoine_Jullien

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[Serial_Apologist]

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... conductors, too - don't forget Louis George Maurice Adolphe Roche Albert Abel Antonio Alexandre Noë Jean Lucien Daniel Eugène Joseph-le-brun Joseph-Barême Thomas Thomas Thomas-Thomas Pierre Arbon Pierre-Maurel Barthélemi Artus Alphonse Bertrand Dieudonné Emanuel Josué Vincent Luc Michel Jules-de-la-plane Jules-Bazin Julio César Jullien

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Antoine_Jullien

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But can he always remember his pin number???

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I always thought those who named Havergal Brian had got the names in the wrong order.

Sir Arthur Bliss always seemed to fit his ebullient music.

Yes and yes.