Most unfortunate names in the UK

Here is an interesting English town you could visit.

Ben Stokes grew up there.

William Wordsworth & Fletcher Christian were born there.

WideWally wrote:Here is an interesting English town you could visit.

Ben Stokes grew up there.

William Wordsworth & Fletcher Christian were born there.

Cockermouth is a great town. Situated on the banks of the river Derwent, i felt right at home there.
I can recommend the Trout Hotel. Good Ale & grub.

buckSH wrote:
was the cock such an important part of british culture so as to necessitate constant comparison with it and at same time an object of such derision. Kindly explain.

ok im bored enough to respond. apologies to everyone else
cock names are almost invariably refering to male birds. mostly domestic fowls like chickens but also gamebirds. thats why you get names like blackcock and woodcock
doesnt explain glasscock though. that ones always puzzled me

Glasscock Name Meaning English: habitational name from Glascote near Tamworth in Staffordshire, named from Old English glæs ‘glass’ + cot ‘hut’, ‘shelter’; it was probably once a site inhabited by a glass blower.Welsh: habitational name from Glascoed in Monmouthshire (Gwent), named from Welsh glas ‘gray’, ‘green’ + coed ‘wood’. This name is also found in Ireland and may also have been brought to the U.S. from there.

preferred not knowing. everyone needs a bit of mystery in their life

embee wrote:Glasscock Name Meaning English: habitational name from Glascote near Tamworth in Staffordshire, named from Old English glæs ‘glass’ + cot ‘hut’, ‘shelter’; it was probably once a site [bold]inhabited by a glass blower[/bold].Welsh: habitational name from Glascoed in Monmouthshire (Gwent), named from Welsh glas ‘gray’, ‘green’ + coed ‘wood’. This name is also found in Ireland and may also have been brought to the U.S. from there.

Or it was a greenhouse.

No more 'Grapecount Lane', though. Shame.

Just came across this fella in 'Stalin's Secret War' by Nikolai Tolstoy.

A WWII hero, of all things. Would you entrust your top secret missions to a fellow by the name of Link- Hugh McPhail?

"Now then lads, this is a desperate bomber mission on which depends the fate of western civilisation. Therefore we have nominated as lead pilot...."

I like that one furriner - took me a little while to realise his name wasn't 'Link-Hugh McPhail' though.

My friend Paul's dad's name is Richard Seaman - to his mates he is Dick.

Parents must've been laughing when they put that one down on the reg form.

I'm just glad I don't live in Minge Lane in Upton-upon-Svern

Now THAT'S an unfortunate name:


Nutella rejects personalised jar for five-year-old girl named Isis
Date
November 27, 2015 - 2:52PM

Illawarra mother Heather Taylor is becoming accustomed to the odd looks, gasps and uncomfortable silences that accompany the mention of her daughter's name. Now she has suffered perhaps the ultimate indignity - being denied a personalised jar of Nutella.

Ms Taylor's sister tried to buy five personalised jars - which are labelled with the recipient's name - for her nephew Odhinn and her niece Isis from a Myer department store in Shellharbour.

Ms Taylor said, both names were initially flagged as problematic by a computer. After some negotiation, Odhinn was deemed acceptable - but the store manager drew the line at Isis, an acronym commonly used to denote Islamic State.

Nutella said the personalised labels were intended to be a "fun and joyful" campaign.

Myer told Ms Taylor that Nutella had a protocol for acceptable names and directed her to Nutella's parent company, Ferrero Australia.

Ferrero chief executive Craig Barker personally contacted her the next day to stand by the company's position.

"I'm really quite upset by this," Ms Taylor told him. "You are actually making my daughter's name dirty. You are choosing to refuse my daughter's name in case the public refers to it negatively."

The Nutella campaign, which allows fans of the hazelnut spread to personalise a 750 gram or one kilogram jar, was launched in September. In a statement, Ferrero Australia confirmed the label in question was not approved for printing due to its sensitive nature.

"Like all campaigns, there needs to be consistency in the way terms and conditions are applied," the company said. "Unfortunately, this has meant there have been occasions where a label has not been approved on the basis that it could have been misinterpreted by the broader community or viewed as inappropriate."

The campaign was intended to be used in "a fun and joyful way", the statement said.

Ms Taylor, 43, named her five-year-old daughter after the Egyptian goddess Isis, revered as a matriarch and friend of the disadvantaged. Her son Odhinn, 8, was named after a god in Nordic mythology.

ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) has come into common parlance only in the past two years, an alternative name for IS (Islamic State), Daesh or ISIL (the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant). The terrorist group has seized territory in both Syria and Iraq, uses brutal methods to rape, kill and pillage and has produced shocking videos that depict beheadings and other forms of torture.

Ms Taylor said she would not be in favour of putting the name "Hitler" on a jar of Nutella, but her case was different because she named her daughter before the rise of Islamic State, she said. She also has no intention of changing her daughter's name, and argues the name Isis needed to be reclaimed.

"This is an acronym that is used incorrectly by the media that Nutella are supporting," Ms Taylor said. "We need to be calling the Daesh death cult by their name, Daesh."

Unforeseeable though it may have been, the Taylor family are now dealing with the consequences of the unfortunate name choice. Ms Taylor has to shield her daughter from news reports, and regularly receives looks of disbelief in public places.

"I am starting to get to the point where I don't want to call her name out," she said. "Because she's going to start noticing people looking."

Ms Taylor also feels particularly aggrieved by a Woman's Day article published earlier this month, which ranked "Isis" as No.1 on a list of 12 baby names that should be criminalised.

"Everyone knows that Isis' mythology has been trumped by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), the group known for, among other things, beheading two journalists and a camera worker," the article suggested. "So, maybe don't go with Isis."

Oddly enough, "Nutella" was No.2 on the Woman's Day list of names that should be made illegal.



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hardly new
ive heard of chicks called isis who have had facebook pages closed down and all sorts of dumb stuff like that

are they gonna try to ban bob dylans song?

So, the Egyptian Goddess of health, marriage, and wisdom is now a terrorist?

Shit happens. You don't see the swastika becoming acceptable again any time soon; yet, it was a Sanskrit symbol of good fortune for centuries before the Nazis appropriated it and made it an object of revulsion.

embee wrote:

Is that the MD on the right plotting his next move?

Not UK, but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewa_Minge

Not sure Tyson Fury isn't, after all, an unfortunate name.

It seems to shout "Prepare to lose an ear!!".


On the lighter side, as someone recently pointed out, it might make for a jolly redtop headline if Mike Tyson were to come out swinging and yell, "How dare you Limey ****** ********* even DREAM of dropping your noo world champion off the list for that prize you got. You're ******** ******* and ********** ******** ******!!!!!!", .... causing a really angry backlash from this side of the Pond against that impassioned tirade.


TYSON TYSON FURY FURY FURY

Here is a case for court ordered sterilization. In her defense, she IS Welsh.

http://www.skynews.com.au/culture/offbeat/europe/2016/04/15/british-woman--can-t-name-child-cyanide-.html?ref=BP_LINKLIST_features-list_2_british-woman--can-t-name-child-cyanide-_150416