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coppice:

--- Quote from: McBryce on September 19, 2017, 08:12:25 am ---
--- Quote from: Simon on September 19, 2017, 06:36:22 am ---surnames in the UK can be interesting, met a guy called Prat and a young lady and her father that went by the name of Caunt.

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I met a guy from the UK called Dick Woodcock. If I were him I would have changed my name. There's also a Gynocologist near my parents called John Dick and his son is also in the same business and called John Dick Junior.

McBryce.

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As well as some fairly common Dyer surnames in the UK, you get lots of instances of parents messing up a perfectly good surname, as an old coworker Rick Shaw found.
CatalinaWOW:
Parents have funny senses of humor.  I have known two different individuals named Richard Hymen.  Both went by the familiar form Dick.

Sometimes it is just a matter of pronunciation.  There are two obvious choices for the very common surname Braswell (also spelled Brasswell).  The ones I know personally insist on the pronunciation that doesn't sell lingerie.
Simon:
Hancock is reasonably common in the UK, easily misinterpreted.
SeanB:
I know a Rick Shaw......



Have also ridden in them as well.
Neomys Sapiens:
I remember an engineer from the UK who bears the family name 'Quirk'. I really don't know what made him take up a technical profession and how he managed to get through his studies and early working years.
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