names

'Bastard' being the gentlemen's actual surname. I haven't bothered managed to find out the reason for their name - but surmise it was a fair description of their parentage somewhere along the line, rather like the name used to describe William I of England - originally known as 'William The...

From the Sussex Express http://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/39Rude39-street-names-to-be.4852652.jp Both Juggs Road and Cockshut Lane are within two minutes skating distance of my front door! There is also a pub called "The Juggs" in Kingston-near-Lewes...imagine being a barmaid there :shock:

Have we done this before? I've always pronounced it the former, but a good friend of mine always says it the other way. Which is right / most used?

One of the doctors at my mums surgery is called Dr Cardwell, I also had a music teacher called Mrs Horn. Does anyone know of other people with names connected with their jobs? Now I'm a Christian my full name is funny too. Do you think peoples names determine their careers?

I've never experienced a ghost personally, but I've been intrigued ever since someone I knew told me of his experience. One odd detail was that he had named the ghost. Actually, he said, "I call her Katherine" (my spelling, I didn't ask him how he spelled it). As far as I know, he never had any...

I thought Jack 'The Hat' McVitie sounded daft but these guys..... Also a cautionary note on reporting ;) http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/story/0,4386,246698,00.html There was one report in the "World's Dumbest Criminals" tread about a killer who's gang nickname was 'The Killer'...

Anyone know of any local folklore regarding the Devil in place-names. I remember reading an article in the Anomalist about US folklore and the Devil and it got me thinking about Britain and its many, many places associated with the Devil. In my neck of the woods we have the Devil's Jumps...

The website of the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans includes a profile of one Charles Fort, herring biologist. Mr Fort coordinates the annual herring spawn survey. I wonder what insight he could offer into their tendency to fall from the skies? For more information on Charles...

I recently "learned" that a street near where I grew up, innocuously called Blagreaves Lane, was named after a corruption of the term "Black Graves", so named because it is built over the site of mass graves dug for victims of the black death. I say "learned" in inverted commas as it seems to be...

This pub has received a lot of publicity recently (I forget exactly why...) I consider myself a minor expert on English pub names, but this was a delightful new surprise to me. There must be lots of fascinating pub names out there - One from Cornwall is the Bucket of Blood, near Hayle...

Ages ago I heard that some eccentric couple had decided to call their newborn child Depressed Cardboard Cheesecake. Does anyone know what happened to the child? Did he/she keep his/her name? What's the weirdest name you've ever heard of? Apart from football fanatics naming their offspring...