Who's name always makes you smile?

[chaosisawayoflife]

For me, its the radio 2 newsreader Fenella Fudge. I think it sounds like a Harry Potter name but it always makes me smile.

debi we know a Millie Fullalove - at school with DD

"it would only be "whose name" if the sentence went .... "a person whose name makes you smile". But the current question "Who's name makes you smile?" is grammatically correct. Shuffle on."

No, "who's" is simply the contraction of who is. Whose: the one or ones belonging to what person or persons eg Whose painting won the third prize?

Oh, I wasn't pointing and laughing at all and neither was I trying to make myself look superior. It's pretty sad if you can't take it in the spirit in which it was written.

Ed Balls... childish I know

DS is hearing impaired. He told me there was a boy at school called Dude. Actually Jude, but I love Dude!

Ditto Riz Lateef.

Shami Chakrabarti from Liberty - makes me a smile in a good way - I just like the sound of her name.

Also makes me smile that Stacey from EE is called Lacey in real life.

The tv presenter, Kylie Pentelow has a lovely name which always makes me smile & think of pantaloons.

The name Jose Mourinho always makes me smile (for obvious reasons)

doubleexpresso -

I like Ban-Ki Moon - it makes me think "We're off, to Ban-Ki Moon".

And Mahmood Ahmadinejad always makes me think Mahmood I'madinnerjacket.

Sorry, Mahmoud, not Mahmood.

Another vote for Nina Nana.

It makes me think of that Whiggy song.

There was a little boy in my my daughters class and his name was Mitchell Marshall Gerrard!!! Always made me chuckle

it should be whose name. not who's.

Oh go and post in pedants corner. You may not mean it to dragon, but that kind of post really does come across as horribly superior and unpleasant. Especially when you have nothing to add to the actual topic under discussion.

I was at school with a Gerald Dean. He had a brother called Chris. Used to make me

Kiri Te Kanawa I like

And Kiki Dee.

Actually I do think mentioning the who's/whose thing is a good thing. Perhaps somebody will learn something. Every day's a school day. If you're not interested then disregard. The beauty of MN, all sorts of topics shooting off from the unremarkable.

Kris Kristofferson

Charles Bukowski - a great author's name

Rageh Omar - I love him.

Oh, I love the name too.

Showofhands - it's just so unnecessarily patronising to the op, especially the way it was expressed here. I'm a secondary school English teacher but I certainly don't feel the need to point out everyone's grammatical errors on an informal chat forum.

Branflakes, if you're so concerned about correct English, why do you have no capital letters at the start of your sentences?

I'm not a secondary school English teacher but it's subjective though isn't it, taking offence? It wouldn't offend me, I'd be grateful and interested.

not so much smile as snigger: candida beverage who i seem to recall is something to do with 'you and yours'

just read your post espresso - my dd had swimming lessons over the summer and said her teacher knew everyone's names except one boy, who he called "dude"...

expresso my DS has auditory processing disorder. He has particular trouble with names so Auntie Caroline = Auntie Carrot, Dyonne = Dingdong, Auntie Susan = Auntie Simpsons, Nathan = Haven. I am forever getting the names of his classmates wrong because I can only go by what he tells me. Most of them have Asian or unusual names so its not like I can guess!

There is a producer who works on American programmes whose 2nd name is Fukutoo. Honest, I have seen it!

Nina Nana gets my vote too. There is also a youngish male weather guy with a name that makes me smile but rubbishly I cannot remember what it is!

Mark Pougatch (sports commentator) who I always thought was Mark Poogash

Imagine the ribbing the poor kid got in the playground

I like Dotun Adebayo (Radio 5 live)