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Funny Company Names....
coppice:
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--- 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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