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  • TheFaQQer
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    Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
    Or Grommitsome?

    But spelt oddly - not going to type it as I'd rather she didn't stumble across this thread if she googles herself,
    Anyone else getting some mental images of child minder googling herself?

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  • mudskipper
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    Originally posted by Old Hack View Post
    lavendernorthbynortheast



    Morphew
    Or Grommitsome?

    But spelt oddly - not going to type it as I'd rather she didn't stumble across this thread if she googles herself,

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  • norrahe
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    It was bad enough with both my first and surname in the UK, its even worse here

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  • Old Hack
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    Originally posted by SimonMac View Post
    Was her name a mixture of a flower and a point on the compass?
    lavendernorthbynortheast

    Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
    No it was a mixture of a plasticine figure and 'not very many'.
    Morphew

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  • Troll
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    Originally posted by p3t3 View Post
    People with long hardly-pronounceable names look for jobs longer.

    WDYT?
    You mean like bob shawadiwadi ?

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  • mudskipper
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    Originally posted by SimonMac View Post
    Was her name a mixture of a flower and a point on the compass?
    No it was a mixture of a plasticine figure and 'not very many'.

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  • SimonMac
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    Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
    When I was trying to find a childminder, I rang everyone on the list before the minder I ended up with, because I wasn't sure how to pronounce her name. If anyone else had vacancies, she wouldn't have got my business. Maybe that's why she did have vacancies. (She turned out to be an excellent minder despite her odd name!)
    Was her name a mixture of a flower and a point on the compass?

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  • p3t3
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    Originally posted by Dominic Connor View Post
    Actually for most of my life I guess 1/3 of people manage to say my name wrong which is impressive, but not in a good way.
    Smith,is that you matey?

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  • Scrag Meister
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    If I had a quid for every time I have had to spell my surname, I wouldn't be working.

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  • mudskipper
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    When I was trying to find a childminder, I rang everyone on the list before the minder I ended up with, because I wasn't sure how to pronounce her name. If anyone else had vacancies, she wouldn't have got my business. Maybe that's why she did have vacancies. (She turned out to be an excellent minder despite her odd name!)

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  • Old Hack
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    Originally posted by Dominic Connor View Post
    I think it's the other way round, unless you see awkward names as some sort of proxy for racism.

    Actually for most of my life I guess 1/3 of people manage to say my name wrong which is impressive, but not in a good way.
    I have told people how to spell my name and they have got it wrong.

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  • Dominic Connor
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    Don't think so

    I think it's the other way round, unless you see awkward names as some sort of proxy for racism.

    Actually for most of my life I guess 1/3 of people manage to say my name wrong which is impressive, but not in a good way.

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  • p3t3
    started a topic Conjecture

    Conjecture

    People with long hardly-pronounceable names look for jobs longer.

    WDYT?

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