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« Reply #7800 on: 15:58:43, 28-09-2008 » |
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Tinners. (That's a strange name, isn't it?? Better than Zack, though  ) Actually my sister and I were given very plain names - John and Jill - although mine is not as common in my generation as in previous ones, and Jill is quite unusual. We both went to school with Jons and Gills but were the only ones with our names spelt in our particular way. Everyone always asked if we were named after the nursery rhyme, though ... I don't mind John at all, but I've always wished I had a name that could be shortened so that I could choose between different forms depending what mood I was in/who I was talking to. I don't have a middle name either (nor does my sister), so I'm stuck with John whatever the weather, really! |
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« Reply #7801 on: 16:11:36, 28-09-2008 » |
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I knew several Jills at school, and there were a lot of Johns then as well, but I think they are typical names of my generation.
Thank you for the Venetian church, DB. Perhaps that will cheer me up a bit
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« Reply #7802 on: 16:28:04, 28-09-2008 » |
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bbm, the brother of your friend call his daughter Victoria after their house  Meanwhile back on the Tube map ... Debden is a chap much given to tweeds and pipe smoking. Enjoys a decent malt at the end of the day. Leyton is an altogether louche sort of fellow. Smirks in an unsettling manner at males and females alike. Never pays his bar bill. I was thinking of the tube station Mort  |
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« Reply #7803 on: 16:42:40, 28-09-2008 » |
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I'm afraid you are horribly right, Tinners. (That's a strange name, isn't it?? Better than Zack, though ) Sounds more like a Cornish ale, actually!  |
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« Reply #7804 on: 16:44:32, 28-09-2008 » |
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Angel is, of course, in Tess of the D'Urbervilles - were people really called Angel? Perhaps there will be a heavenly host of Angels now it's been on the telly . If Merle Park sounds like a station, as I said earlier, then Gidea Park must be a ballerina whose pirouettes aren't very good. |
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« Reply #7805 on: 16:46:45, 28-09-2008 » |
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I can't say I'm wild about my name but I can live with it. What does make me wild (in a gritting my teeth manner) is when people shorten it. I made a point of asking that my full name be put on my badge at work. Waste of time. 'Oh hi, xxx!'.  That's funny - you seem (to me) so much like a [Morticia] that I would never have dreamed of calling you [Mort] ( mutatis mutandis, if you see what I mean)! Tinners,  |
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« Reply #7806 on: 17:09:12, 28-09-2008 » |
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I'm afraid you are horribly right, Tinners. (That's a strange name, isn't it?? And I think it was I who christened him! (At least I remember coming up with it, even if someone had got there earlier without my noticing). |
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« Reply #7807 on: 17:31:18, 28-09-2008 » |
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About ten years ago I decided I wanted to be called by my (fairly common) middle name, rather than my rather unusual and flowery first name.
A very long standing friend of mine into rather New Age circles still calls me by my first name: she says most of her friends have changed their names, but usually from a mundane one to an exotic one ("I used to be called Alison, now I'm Stardust.")
I was very reluctant to let my mother know, after all she had chosen the unusual first name for reasons best known to herself. I can only think of an eminent conductor with it at the time, and it is even rarer now. When I told her, her reaction was "My father, my husband and my son all with the same name!"
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« Reply #7808 on: 17:37:34, 28-09-2008 » |
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My grandsons are named Thomas, Oliver, George and Henry. I was rooting for Tristan, Titus, Benedick and Toby. How boring it is to have conventional children!
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« Reply #7809 on: 17:39:19, 28-09-2008 » |
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You might be right, martle - actually I had no idea where it came from, it's just one of those things I sort of accepted without asking too much. I think names work like that: I would never have seen myself as a 'Tinners' but it fits comfortably enough now.
Interestingly, after meeting me for real Ron decided I wasn't very tinners-like after all and he never uses it any more!
Re DonB and the eminent conductor who shared his unusual name ... it's funny how people naturally suppose you're named after someone famous. My dad's called Peter and his middle name is Maxwell. People could assume my whole family is obsessed with contemporary music, except that Peter Maxwell Davies was 12 when my dad was born and I don't think he was famous yet! Goodness knows where my grandma did get Maxwell from - she probably thought it sounded posh, but I always found it strange that two working-class boys born in Lancashire in the 1930s/40s were given those names.
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« Reply #7810 on: 17:55:48, 28-09-2008 » |
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I don't mind John at all, but I've always wished I had a name that could be shortened so that I could choose between different forms depending what mood I was in/who I was talking to. I don't have a middle name either (nor does my sister), so I'm stuck with John whatever the weather, really!
Actually, I've always been grateful that my parents gave me a monosyllabic first name, so that I never get shortened. On the other hand, I have quite an unusual middle name - it's an old family surname, derived in turn from the small village in Northumberland from which we apparently originally hail. I hated it as a child, and now enjoy the novelty rather more. |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #7811 on: 18:25:07, 28-09-2008 » |
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will anyone want the name Arsenia?
I used to know a Bulgarian opera singer named Arsenny Antonoff Arsoff, so just consider yourselves lucky, all of you. |
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« Reply #7812 on: 20:26:30, 28-09-2008 » |
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I really hate being abbreviated - obviously, i would rather people called me by my given name and not a shortened version because they are too lazy to call me by it. Only my very oldest firends get away with it, everyone else gets corrected.
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« Reply #7813 on: 20:30:33, 28-09-2008 » |
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I don't see what laziness has to do with it: it's not that much easier to utter one syllable than three. They probably just think they're being friendly.
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« Reply #7814 on: 20:35:51, 28-09-2008 » |
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At least Jonathan (assuming that's your name) is quite often used in its full form, whereas I've never known a Christopher or Nicholas who was known by the unabbreviated name.
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