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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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Flightattendant9 · 03/02/2009 13:42

Maretta's link I mean.

mileniwmffalcon · 03/02/2009 13:45

dp was at school with tamara knight

mileniwmffalcon · 03/02/2009 13:52

thomas watt?

LadySnotAlot · 03/02/2009 13:57

I knew a Paul Hiscock (say it quickly and outloud!)

Also know a phil dick.

bluebump · 03/02/2009 14:08

I know of a Wayne King...and my auntie was Called Teresa Green which always got pronounced without the first e in Teresa somehow.

hippipotamiHasLostTwoPounds · 03/02/2009 14:20

I don't get Thomas Watt??

Dh was at school with two brothers, Norman and Roman Warrior.

BouncingTurtle · 03/02/2009 14:28

T. Watt

hippipotamiHasLostTwoPounds · 03/02/2009 14:33

ahhh Thank you bouncing!

rempy · 03/02/2009 14:38

Jamaycka List.

Honestly.

whingeomatic · 03/02/2009 14:38

DH went to school with twin girls Pamela & Leigh Flett....

georgimama · 03/02/2009 14:46

My nan went to school with an Ophelia Cox.

My brother went to school with a Dicken Head.

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.

Jux · 03/02/2009 14:54

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

mollyroger · 03/02/2009 14:57

dh was at school with Gay Nobbs.

12StoneNeedsToBe10 · 03/02/2009 15:05

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

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

littlerach · 03/02/2009 15:17

Had an Amber Green at school.

I have met a Mike Hunt.

mysterymoniker · 03/02/2009 15:33

I am the only one of me in the UK

but I knew that already

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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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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.

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 09:48

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.

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.

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......

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