To ask you to help me decipher this name?

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Dd has come home from reception today and has made a new best friend called “Whiskers”.
“Whiskers” is definitely a girl and she has yellow hair.
I did ask if she was tabby but apparently not!!!
According to DD “Whiskers” is 100% her name.
Please help me decipher what it could be, as I can’t ask her what games she has played with “Whiskers” today whilst keeping a straight face.

My middle daughter's first day at nursery - her friend was "Something like Lasagne"....

It was Tania....

Yeah, there are a fair few Indian names that feature “shit”, “shat” and “poo”. My Indian MIL laughs about it and says people need to think more carefully about the way some names just don’t translate to an English speaking country

I came home from preschool and told my mum there was a baby there called Freezer. Turns out his grandma was talking about “wee Fraser” in a very strong Scottish accent.

My sister once told my mum they’d had cat food for lunch at school. It actually turned out to be moussaka.

DS had a friend at nursery he insisted was called Weasel. It was when I met the mum and realised they were a German family that I clicked... Liesel!

My DD did this to me once, convinced me her friend at nursery was called 'Bukanaya'.

His name was Victor.

I understand your pain.

My son kept pointing at a boy in the playground earlier and telling me his name was Charlotte.

I kept trying to correct him and offer alternative suggestion, mai my Charlie, but he kept telling me it was definitely Charlotte 😂

Oh this reminds me of a time when my nearly 13yr old was in reception. He had a friend who he constantly called Mog. She wasn’t called Mog, but was called Megan. I put it down to the fact that he used to watch Meg & Mog at the time?! But also he had a lad who he always called Meal who’s real name was Neil and his brother has a lad in his year who he always called Lemon, but is called Lennon. gently chuckles to self

Oh thank you for this thread, it's made me cry with laughter.

Her real name is probably Go-Cat.

Haha so glad there’s others out there that feel my pain!

Haha reminds me of when my DS went into reception and made a friend who he was convinced was called Elephant! Turns out he was called Ellison! Can see the confusion bless him

I once had a lady tell me her name was Boobie! I obviously looked a little taken aback so she said 'yes I know, it's usually a mans name'

My DD also insisted her friend was called Mole. Long time before I found out it was Noel.

One of mine came home and said there was a boy called Bone at nursery. Turned out it was Beau. Fair enough.
Then she said there was a girl called Lilly-bo. And she was actually called that.

My niece insisted that the twin girls in her class were "Sammy and Sammy". Turns out they were Sareeta and Saria.

As a kid, I was convinced my favourite nursery lady was called Roof. She was of course Ruth (and this was in Essex )

@Lucylugs, are you sure it wasn't Bobby? I know a female Bobby.

If she was Scottish it can get pronounced 'boabie', which would be pretty close..

"Boabie" = Bobby in Scottish. Depending on the accent, there could definitely be a coincidental "boob" sound!

A friends little bro said there was an "October" in his class. She's Octavia

When my ds was younger he used to say excited but to us it sounded like "a dickhead" 😂 it took us forever to work out he was saying excited

My ds2 when at preschool kept telling me he had been playing with Tiddle. It was months before I realised his name was actually Theodore pronounced Tea-a-dore!!

Our headteacher at primary school was called Mr Alloway. Cue me learning the Lord’s Prayer as: Our Father who art in heaven, Alloway be thy name.

Back in the early 90s I went to school with a girl whose name really was Linda Hand.

aww made me smile my DD was often called caketin - by a friends non nt daughter

**ElainaElephant
Yes I think her name must have been Bobby. I didnt realise until after that she must've been from another country.

Hesper? Vesper?

DS knows one of each and it took me a while to work out who Espah and Whisper were.

Having a giggle at everyone those who has been as perplexed as I was!!!
She’s coming out with some right corkers since starting school.
The latest is apparently all of the children go out for playtime while the teachers sit inside drinking tea!
I said that there is always an adult outside supervising them, but again she insists they go out to play alone!