I Don't Like That Name....

[Bry Nylon]

A desire to give your children unusual, non-traditional names can have a habit of backfiring badly...

Just come back from a half-term holiday with the family, down in Dorset. Whilst we were there I overheard a couple at a farm-park talking to their (about) 3 year old daughter:

"Would you like a drink, Isis?"

 

[Puppet Master]

My mum uses her middle name. Still confuses the hell out of me when people ask how's Sandra/Marie

 

[atfc village]

Went to school with twins named Rohan and Dillarn ,years later i worked with them and their names had been changed to Phillip and Micheal .Funny thing was they denied all knowledge of their previous names or even having been to the said school.

 

[backson]

There were a few uses of middle names by various aunts and uncles of a certain generation. The one that always intrigued me was my Grandad, whose given names were Albert Frederick, but everyone called him George. It was from when he worked for Home and Colonial Stores before the war (hands up anyone who remembers them), and some of the higher class people who shopped there called all the assistants "George", and it stuck from there.