a colleague told me the other day that her husband had been to school with a brother and sister called Everard and Ophelia Dick. I was very dismissive, told her I'd heard that story several times before, that it was an urban myth and possibly on snopes.com.
Luckily I stopped short of saying that the story probably had racist undertones.
But I've just googled them and they're well documented in the same town that her husband is from. So the chances are he's right. I'm very and will have to tell her so in the morning.
I get so used to these name tales being false and offensive that I didn't think there was any way it was going to be true.
Does anybody know if any of the others are true?
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