TimRam Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 Workmate was called Richard Turpin. Yes he did like telling people his name was Dick Turpin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkFruitsRam7 Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 5 hours ago, Mucker1884 said: How dare you! I have better things to do... I just choose not to do them! ? Poor Mrs Mucker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turk Thrust Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 I am helping the Court of Appeal in Nigeria with computerising court records. They love my surname which is Crooks. When I first met the President of the Court, he said “ah, Crooks. We have lots of you in Nigeria!” Also for a time back in the 70s I worked as a benefit fraud officer and my colleague was named Swindells. What a team - Crooks and Swindells. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mucker1884 Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 14 minutes ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said: Poor Mrs Mucker. She's an Ilson lass. Believe me, she's well aware of how well she's done for herself! ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turk Thrust Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 On 20/12/2020 at 07:24, jono said: Just a random musing but names are interesting (if you’re a bit of an anorak like me ) North, Tall, Smith, Johnson, Fletcher, Cooper and many others all with simple derivations. Physical characteristics, trade, or family. You can see where they come from. Yet there are others that arouse curiosity ... I mean, Drinkwater ? How did that come about ? It is the same in Europe. I knew Italians with names like Bevaqua (Drinkwater ) and Biacofiore (white flower) I sometimes wonder what the conversation was in 8th century England when some fellow was crowned Sidebottom ? Or Arbuthnot ? We’ve got a Lightfoot a Tranter and a Holyrake in our family history. Where did they start I sometimes wonder. ? I’ve always been fascinated by surnames. Bit of a geek on the subject. Some Welsh names have an interesting origin. From “ap” or “ab” meaning “son” you get several condensed names such as Parry (ap Harry), Bowen (ab Owen), Pritchard (ap Richard), Pugh (ap Hugh), Price (ap Rhys), Powell (ap Hywell), Upjohn (ap John) etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jono Posted January 1, 2021 Author Share Posted January 1, 2021 2 minutes ago, Turk Thrust said: I’ve always been fascinated by surnames. Bit of a geek on the subject. Some Welsh names have an interesting origin. From “ap” or “ab” meaning “son” you get several condensed names such as Parry (ap Harry), Bowen (ab Owen), Pritchard (ap Richard), Pugh (ap Hugh), Price (ap Rhys), Powell (ap Hywell), Upjohn (ap John) etc I am an anorak about old stuff like that... thank you .. I just learned something ? I’m an Owen but I had to laugh when going - for work - to a company in the valleys . Checked in a security, asked my name, gave it, expecting a kind of “your one of us” reaction ... No chance ? gate man says in lilting welsh voice “and how do you spell that then boyo ?” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richinspain Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 I once heard of someone called F*cknot. Apparently he pronounced it Fu-not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Durden Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 I worked with a guy from Holland whose name was Robert Slikker. If you abbreviated his first name you got R Slikker. Have to say it out loud. He did eventually see the funny side of it after being told numerous times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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