Nutella - Perfect name? Sacré Bleu!

[Sheepshanks]

GTIR said:

SpudLink said:

When I was at school, the priest told us a story about one of his colleagues.
At the christening of a baby girl, the parents said her name was Hazel. The priest said "I'm not going to name a baby after a nut! I name this child 'Mary'".
The parents, as devout Irish Catholics felt obliged to continue calling her Mary.

I cant vouch for the veracity of this tale.

Firstly, priest. At school. (I will refrain from making jibes about the Catholic church and young boys)

The Irish are known story tellers.

I certainly remember Dave Allen telling that story.

[GTIR]

Sheepshanks said:

GTIR said:

SpudLink said:

When I was at school, the priest told us a story about one of his colleagues.
At the christening of a baby girl, the parents said her name was Hazel. The priest said "I'm not going to name a baby after a nut! I name this child 'Mary'".
The parents, as devout Irish Catholics felt obliged to continue calling her Mary.

I cant vouch for the veracity of this tale.

Firstly, priest. At school. (I will refrain from making jibes about the Catholic church and young boys)

The Irish are known story tellers.

I certainly remember Dave Allen telling that story.

Was Dave Allen a priest?

[CaptainSlow]

GTIR said:

Was Dave Allen a priest?

He had a finger in many pies.

[Starfighter]

To a maximum of 9.

[Sheepshanks]

Starfighter said:

To a maximum of 9.

and a half.

[ChemicalChaos]

mcgandalf said:

anonymous said:

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Ditto for 'Harriet' and 'Duncan'.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/i...

There's a very good reason for this.

In the nordic countries, your surname is your father's first name, with "son" added to the end for boys, or mother's first name with "dottir" added to the end for girls.

Therefore, parents are banned from giving their children stupid names or names that dont work in Icelandic, because their children will end up with an even more stupid surname.

It's why pretty much every Nordic bloke has the surname "magnusson", "johansson" or "stefansson"

Edited by ChemicalChaos on Tuesday 27th January 18:03

[Eleven]

ChemicalChaos said:

There's a very good reason for this.

In the nordic countries, your surname is your father's first name, with "son" added to the end for boys, or mother's first name with "dottir" added to the end for girls.

Therefore, parents are banned from giving their children stupid names or names that dont work in Icelandic, because their children will end up with an even more stupid surname.

It's why pretty much every Nordic bloke has the surname "magnusson", "johansson" or "stefansson"

Edited by ChemicalChaos on Tuesday 27th January 18:03

Do they still use that naming convention?

[Mark-C]

ChemicalChaos said:

There's a very good reason for this.

In the nordic countries, your surname is your father's first name, with "son" added to the end for boys, or mother's first name with "dottir" added to the end for girls.

Therefore, parents are banned from giving their children stupid names or names that dont work in Icelandic, because their children will end up with an even more stupid surname.

It's why pretty much every Nordic bloke has the surname "magnusson", "johansson" or "stefansson"

Edited by ChemicalChaos on Tuesday 27th January 18:03

So does this mean Stefan Johansson can have a son called Johan Stefansson and they can just flip flop the name down the generations?

[Balmoral]

[jas xjr]

There was a poor kid in India named Skylab singh.
I also knew a lad called Kennedy ,his brother was called Einstein.

[voyds9]

Digga said:

"Rothmans" if it's a girl, "Ashtray" if it's a boy.

Other way round surely.

Boy "Rothman" cylindrical object made for pleasure, to go in a round hole.

Girl "Ashtray" where the spent piece is left.

[MentalSarcasm]

Thing is, odd names really not a new thing. While doing some family history research I found a bunch of children who were named "Diamond Jubilee" (or one or the other), because they were born in 1897, and that includes several boys who were given "Jubilee" as a middle name (and one boy called Jubilee Frederick).

I've also come across children born on board a ship who were named after said ship. All well and good when your daughter is born on the good ship Martha, but if the poor little mite enters the world on the "Ostara" then you might be pushing things a bit too far. Although it does make family history a bit easier to track