What's in a name?
Friday, February 26th, 2010 03:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanHaving spent years listening to Wake Up to Wogan on Radio 2, I have heard more than my fair share of odd and/or funny names dreamt up by the TOGs as pseudonyms for their letters to the show.
Thus we get Mick Sturbs (author of the perennially popular Janet and John stories), Frances Frogbound, Dora Jar, Curtis E Kerr and - a personal favourite – Sir Jekyll Stockings. These and others are just a bit of a laugh. We should perhaps, pause for a moment and spare a though for the poor sods who have been lumbered in real life. The Daily Telegraph is running an article on a new names survey conducted recently in the UK.
Barb Dwyer: Britain’s most unfortunate names disclosed in new survey.
Pity poor Jenny Taylor (think about it).
Thus we get Mick Sturbs (author of the perennially popular Janet and John stories), Frances Frogbound, Dora Jar, Curtis E Kerr and - a personal favourite – Sir Jekyll Stockings. These and others are just a bit of a laugh. We should perhaps, pause for a moment and spare a though for the poor sods who have been lumbered in real life. The Daily Telegraph is running an article on a new names survey conducted recently in the UK.
Barb Dwyer: Britain’s most unfortunate names disclosed in new survey.
Pity poor Jenny Taylor (think about it).