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Say the whole thing aloud. Repeatedly.

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2Helenback · 02/02/2009 15:17

I have a friend who swears on a stack of bibles that an aquantance of hers named Mr and Mrs Royd named dd Emma and couldn't understand her shock at hearing this.

Another friend swears a child in the primary she works in is Giselle Onions. (Repeat it, and don't try and pronounce it all French like)

Also, in Stoke dialect, it you can't do something you say "I conner...". So why are there 2 kids in her school called Connor Cook and Connor Cope?

I was taught by a Sylvia Birch, but that was a cruel twist of marriage.

I have a surname which makes the say it aloud method essential.

Any other corkers out there.

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moonstonefairy · 05/02/2009 18:36

Richard Edward (dickhead)

Flightattendant12 · 05/02/2009 18:33

What;s the Jenna one about Ohhhhhhh

Oh I see

harpomarx · 05/02/2009 18:29

watching a travel programme the other other day about Argentina, I roffled at the farm manager (a scottish immigrant) called Ronald MacDonald.

he didn't have orange curly hair, sadly.

thumbwitch · 05/02/2009 18:23

evil, innit. I think Austin Healey must have had a bit of a rough ride as well, being named after a car.

greenbeanie · 05/02/2009 16:33

I worked with a family who called their new baby son Wayne Kerr - say it out loud and see what you think . Poor child.

thumbwitch · 05/02/2009 15:08

Real people or names I have seen:
Carey Oakey
Michael Hunt (known as Mike)
Richard Head (why do parents do this?)
John Thomas
Andrew Pratt

A lecturer of mine told me that they thought long and hard about their son's name and called him Benjamin Richard - and were stunned when a neighbour said "oh, after the white goods people [Bendix]"

ForeverOptimistic · 05/02/2009 15:03

I worked with someone called Jenna Taylor, the thing is Jenna was short for Jennifer which sounds perfectly respectable. I wanted to ask her to consider using her full name to stop the sniggering as she was totally oblivious to it all.

dragonbutter · 05/02/2009 15:00

mrsY, it was hilarious wasn't it. i can't believe rory bremner didn't mention it.

MrsY · 04/02/2009 10:14

dragonbutter, my husband wet himself at Di Stiph! I noticed she wore a wedding ring, and ssid "it's probably her married name". He wondered if her maiden name was floppy!

georgimama · 04/02/2009 10:13

Are you on the electoral roll?

Maybe it does electoral roll (in which case it wouldn't actually count children) so if you aren't on it....

MouseMate · 04/02/2009 10:08

Hold on a minute. According to the yournotme website I dont exist, neither does dd or dsd, or either DSILs. My MIL is unique, as is DH.........

How bloody strange......

bran · 04/02/2009 09:56

Years ago at work we had an American supplier called Ed Case, the company was Ed Case Associates. Apparently it's not funny at all over there.

georgimama · 04/02/2009 09:48

DS is "as rare as a wombat's wingnut". So is DH.

It's the odd spelling of a very common surname that does it.

georgimama · 04/02/2009 09:46

And apparently there are 360 mes with my maiden name.

One of the other ones was in my school - how freaky is that!

georgimama · 04/02/2009 09:45

There are 13 of me in the UK. According to that site "there are probably more people killed in yoghurt, cream, marshmallow and fluffy thing accidents each year than there are of you".

Which is nice.

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2Helenback · 03/02/2009 20:02

There was an army posh type on TV news last year called Major Richard Head. How we laughed!(So immature!)

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mysterymoniker · 03/02/2009 15:33

I am the only one of me in the UK

but I knew that already

littlerach · 03/02/2009 15:17

Had an Amber Green at school.

I have met a Mike Hunt.

bronze · 03/02/2009 15:09

I went to school with a Chris Peacock too

I used to live around the corner from [richard] Dick Feeler )not sure on spelling)
My history teacher was called Richard Holder

12StoneNeedsToBe10 · 03/02/2009 15:05

ex-CEO in work was Dick Brown. All emails have the surname first...

mollyroger · 03/02/2009 14:57

dh was at school with Gay Nobbs.

Jux · 03/02/2009 14:54

Not quite the same but I went to primary with 3 brothers called Sean, Ian and John.

pgwithnumber3 · 03/02/2009 14:50

Had a teacher in Primary school named Teresa Green - and not by marriage.

pgwithnumber3 · 03/02/2009 14:50

Had a teacher in Primary school named Teresa Green - and not by marriage.

georgimama · 03/02/2009 14:46

My nan went to school with an Ophelia Cox.

My brother went to school with a Dicken Head.