To point out that it's Osborne and NOT Osbourne

[showtunesgirl]

If you going to write about the cunt, then use the right spelling. (Yes IABU as this should have gone in Pedants' Corner).

A simple way to remember the correct spelling is that you wish that he had never been BORN.

Not BOURNE as in sexy men with amnesia.

[tilder]

Ahh, Gideon it is then. Tit that he is.

I would say the impression created by his name is the least of his worries.

[ReturnOfEmeraldGreen]

Gideon is his real first name. Of course it is more polite to use his preferred (middle) name. Unfortunately I find that politesse becomes strained when Osborne hoves into view...

[showtunesgirl]

Gideon was his original given name.

[GetOeuf]

Sounds too Jewish apparently Tilder. He couldn't have people thinking that, hence the use of George.

The galumphing great twat.

[GetOeuf]

That is a good way of remembering how to spell it OP

[tilder]

I am a bit thick though. Why Gideon? Naturally if its his preferred name, it should be used.

[seeker]

I just think "now what was the name of the person I booed at the Olympics? Ah, yes, now I remember......"

[showtunesgirl]

Yes Fleecy I have been whipping myself since I pressed the Post button!

[ReturnOfEmeraldGreen]

Actually, there is a weak, vain and foolish character in Vanity Fair called George Osborne. Thackeray is bang up to date and no mistake.

[Fleecyslippers]

[snigger]

Shall I start a new thread entitled 'If You're going to be a PITA about spelling, make sure your own posts are beyond criticism....'

[ReturnOfEmeraldGreen]

Just call him Gideon. It's more distinctive, and he doesn't like it

[showtunesgirl]

Doh! If you ARE...