Poor Girl On Uni Challenge This Evening.

[DTCwordfan]

the only gal on the Sheffield team facing the all-female foursome from Newham College, Cambridge. If I was her, I'd have my name changed by deed-poll.....her surname being 'Haw'.

Over to you with any surnames that you have come across that merit deed-poll change?

[Hazlinny]

Pigg

[Maydup]

Miss Fitt

[DTCwordfan]

Down here we have a Richard Head and his OH Cherry

[Barsel]

Trump. (Donald)

[sandyRoe]

There aren't as many Ramsbottoms about as there once were.

[douglas9401]

Genetic engineering, Sandy, tups were very non-ewe.

[campbellking]

One of our local doctors is Dr Shitta Bey

[Mozz71]

I used to work in the insurance industry. We had a customer named Carole Service.

[Ellipsis]

I once knew a Dick Pratt. Why oh why he chose to use "Dick" when his surname was "Pratt" I could never fathom. He finally changed his name by deed poll when his children were being teased at school. By then he himself was obviously quite old.

[DTCwordfan]

A colleague of mine's father came over from Holland as a pilot - he had to drop the Van der of Van de Hyatt when my colleague and his brother at school were being teased with 'VD'. Now he's a plain Hyatt - and the embarrassing thing for his wife was going to the States and finding themselves being upgraded to the top suite when they stayed in the hotels of the same name.

[zebo]

OH once had Gary Baldie in a class and I once had James Bond, in my class that is. The funny part was he looked just like the Milky Bar Kid.

[Sipowicz]

My daughter went to school with Wayne Bruce......his nickname was Manbat!

[evadora]

I went to school with a young lad whose surname was Belcher.

[Peter Pedant]

Look at the prog - not their names
Newnham Leddies were treating it twittering like a JCR party.

Paxo asked - a word meaning "decreasing" which has a rhyme in Sonnet 18
and one of the leddies said, "Oh, date,May, - emperate,date - shines declines" - oh it is declines
and then she did it for the other two supplementaries ( came out with a list of the rhymes at the end of the line)

They caned the opposition

I got the word based on the arabic for wool - -- 'sufi'

[Khandro]

I saw the name outside a surgery in Paris : Dr. Pistoff.

[Milo2]

I worked with a lady called A. Pratt.

[Ellipsis]

Was she born A. Pratt or did she marry a Pratt?

[bookbinder]

There are several men with the name Michael Barrass. They will, presumably, need to sign cheques, etc. as M. Barrass.

[Gettingonabit]

I am obviously missing something but what is wrong with the surname Haw.

[jourdain2]

^^^ I'm not sure either about that. There was a lad in school in the 1970s (I didn't teach him) whose name was Peter Ennis. Not bad until you saw him on lists as P. Ennis. The kids nicknamed him Chopper.