What's In a Name


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Nottingham, coupled with nostalgia conveniently brings up 'Nottstalgia.

If Newcastle were to do the same thing, we could end up with 'Newralgia'.

Can anyone think of other interesting combinations?

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We have a drive-through wildlife park in Williams, lots of animals but mainly bears. It's called Bearizona, a mingling of Bear and Arizona, quite clever I thought.

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My old friend and neighbour in Glasgow had the old clan surname of Ffarqhar. he accepted my ribbing about his kids being little Ffarqhars. However, when his daughter started courting a lovely young man with the common local surname of Smelly, I was concerned that they might double-barrell their name into Smelly-ffar.......... no! don't even go there.

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My friend and I had a favourite pastime of looking up the most unusual or funny names in the phone book, (in days long gone I would like to add). One we came upon was I M Smellie who lived on Nicker Hill in Nottingham (Sorry if you are he and reading this) Several years later whilst working in a Nottingham hotel a banqueting waiter came into our restaurant and told us of one of the guests names..it was the same person, and I showed him the phone book entry as he didn't believe me when I told him of the address.

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Smelly or Smellie is a common name in Glasgow, as is Pollock.

Off surnames and on to place names. I read somewhere that in Dorset (I think) there is a village called Shitterton. And to add insult to injury, the local water authority have plans to build a sewage farm there. I have an idea that the local river is called the Piddle. Might be a good name for Mr Smellie to live.

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