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Lawson or Lawton?

41 replies

fluentinsarcasm · 16/08/2016 21:47

Which do you prefer?

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Figgygal · 16/08/2016 22:28

neither.......sorry

MistressoftheYoniverse · 16/08/2016 22:27

Lawson? Lawton?...first names?...explain!

LuckySantangelo1 · 16/08/2016 22:11

Neither, sorry!

Jacobbay · 16/08/2016 22:10

As in chancellor Nigel Lawson?

DramaAlpaca · 16/08/2016 22:05

Of the two, Lawson sounds better.

villainousbroodmare · 16/08/2016 21:58

Lawson but I like neither. Can't imagine a chubsy infant or a sparkly little boy called either of those. Maybe, maybe a sixty-eight year old man with large ears and dramatically wiry grey eyebrows. An irascible "Git orf my laaaawn!" sort of fellow.

Ningnang2000 · 16/08/2016 21:57

Sorry but I feel the same about surnames as first names. Not for me but each to their own and all that.

BertrandRussell · 16/08/2016 21:56

Neither. Choose a name.

squoosh · 16/08/2016 21:54

I'm in Scotland where surnames as first names is an old tradition.

MadisonAvenue · 16/08/2016 21:54

Neither, sorry.

squoosh · 16/08/2016 21:53

Lawson. It trips off the tongue easier than Lawton.

RusholmeRuffian · 16/08/2016 21:52

Both dreadful, sorry!

strongswans · 16/08/2016 21:51

Neither sorry, they're surnames not first names.

JinkxMonsoon · 16/08/2016 21:51

I really dislike this trend for surnames-as-forenames, especially when there's no precedent for using a particular surname as a forename. So... neither.

OSETmum · 16/08/2016 21:49

None sorry.

PurpleDaisies · 16/08/2016 21:49

Lawson but I don't really like either sorry.