Names

[oddoneout]

Problems with Suk, Lats? There's always

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blow

... together they could have written wonderful Music for Harmonica.

(And - to return to the Fourth Form - the uncharitable sniggerability of Fartein Valen's name has meant that I've never actually heard a note of his Music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fartein_Valen

Is there a wind trio in there somewhere?

[P. G. Tipps]

I've been greatly impressed by footballers recently appearing on the scene named Jesus and Moses ... both are well worth signing, I'd have thought.

On the other hand Shittu might well be a prime candidate for a free transfer ...

[BBMmk2]

Plantagenet is a good name I think!!

[Lat-Literal]

A few years ago I occasion to have dealings with someone whose surname was Widdall....(and no, not in the medical profession - ND mechanism would be a bit cruel on that one wouldn't it?)

Interesting. I knew a woman called Waddell who was always at pains to explain she wasn't to be pronounced Waddle, She was a mate of mine actually - and became a Cork.

I've been greatly impressed by footballers recently appearing on the scene named Jesus and Moses ... both are well worth signing, I'd have thought.

On the other hand Shittu might well be a prime candidate for a free transfer ...

Moses is very much linked to my old senior school. A lot has changed. They have abandoned apartheid. Shittu probably experiences worse and Jesus has too much to live up to.

Plantagenet is a good name I think!!

Absolutely - if this were a thread of favourite words, azure, tranquil, serendipity, foam and chiaroscuro, among others. and among those others it could well be Plantagenet.

[oddoneout]

Just come across Rowsby Woof - that surname must have been a sink or swim one at school.
Felix Kok is another 3 letter surname lat-lit.

[ardcarp]

Amused by Alexei Sayle's brilliant show on R4 today. From it:

I went to see a play called Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker. Afterwards my wife said, I went to school with someone called Timberlake Wertenbaker. Do you think it could be the same person?

[EdgeleyRob]

Here's one - the former footballer Vennegoor of Hesselink - what a fantastic name, especially in its context! Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink was thus named because, way back in the 17th century, two farming families in the Enschede area of Holland intermarried. Both the Vennegoor and Hesselink names carried equal social weight, and so - rather than choose between them - they chose to use both. 'Of' in Dutch actually translates to 'or', which would mean that the strictest translation of his name would read Vennegoor or Hesselink.

Just imagine that on the back of a replica Celtic shirt at a quid per letter

[gurnemanz]

Scheidt

[cloughie]

Scheidt

There's a lot of it about!

[gradus]

May I add:
Prick van Wily
Pierre Anus
Pierre Jean Jacques Bacon-Tacon
Ludwig von Baldass
Otto Banga
Perin H Cabinetmaker
Roger Destroyer
Stanka Fuckar
Manfred Grunt
Mme J J Fouqueau de Pussy
Abraham Shag
Nit Tongospit
and who could forget...
Urban Grosskipper von Wipper

(With thanks to Russel Ash and Brian Lake's Bizarre Books)

[Serial_Apologist]

Does the name Sidebottom have Yorkshire associations? A Mrs Sidebottom and her husband moved to a posh part of the Home Counties, where she preferred being called Siddibothahm, with the stress on the final syllable. This was long before the Hilary Wainthrop character.

[EdgeleyRob]

Eric Djemba-Djemba

(so good they named him twice)

[Nick Armstrong]

This is one of the best threads EVER!

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...

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... once you have encountered Train's "Remarkable Names of Real People" almost nothing surprizes.

Here are a few -

http://f2.org/humour/language/oddnames.html

I have a soft spot for Gaston J Feeblebunny, Verbal Funderburk, Miss Horsey de Horsey, Strangeways Pigg Strangeways, and of course Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, and Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Drax

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leone_Sextus_Tollemache

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[Dave2002]

Just come across Rowsby Woof - that surname must have been a sink or swim one at school.
Felix Kok is another 3 letter surname lat-lit.

If you must, then Skok is also a surname - not 3 letter. Requires careful pronunciation. I believe that at one time you might have found Grimbleass in the NY telephone directory, and also Longernecker.

[Dave2002]

Go back a thousand years or more and there were some names which sound very odd today.

See, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadbal...LD_OF_KENT.svg

I quite fancy the name Eadbald - though I doubt whether parents would be thanked for naming any of their children such.

Rumbald is another old name - see http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules....wpic&pid=86939