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i quite like Tickle....
spelled Tickhill... :smiley:
Cholmondley, pronounce Chumley. Featherstonehagh, pronounced Fanshaw. And then - my first wife worked in the education department identifying grammar school places for families moving into Surrey with children in grammar schools elsewhere. Some chuckle worthy names, most of which I have forgotten, but Blossom Potts lives in the memory
Mike
I've just started listening to Spike Milligan's Army related books which got a mention here recently (everything here is recently but it doesn't feel that way) so I found and downloaded them.
Like me he has anonymised names but with more panache. One that immediately comes to mind but there are many is Colonel Startling-Grope. Very famous bloke - even google has heard of him.
We had a Maureen Pratt in our class..
My wife helped as a voluntary classroom assistant years back. A little Chinese (?) girl arrived. Her name was Oi Yu. They decided to call her Lucy. Probably not allowed these days.
My mother always felt sorry for one of her pupils
Wendy May Hoare.
what are parents thinking? If at all
Mike
Just sayin...
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Richard+head&hl=en
There's a place in North Wales called Hawarden, pronounced Hard'un :grin:
I sort of remember something similar. Perhaps I went there once. Years ago.
I knew a Theresa whose married name was Green.
at my first grammar school - St. Olave's and St. Saviour's - there was a pair of twins in my form, surname Sanguine - never heard it before nor since
Mike
Bloody hell Mike ! :grin:
There was a girl on another site who was a childminder and said she knows twins called Rogan and Josh...
Guy at university claims to have been at school with someone with Christian names Ivor St John Richard, known to his friends as Dick.
i have a good friend who has twin boys
ignore their names
they are known as
Ronnie and Reggie....lol
two great guys