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Reading the Name Game thread reminded me of my sister and I planning to take the world by storm in film - this was when we were younger and had plans. We decided that Goodacre (my maiden name and boy! was I glad to change it when I married the Dodo!) wasn't quite right so we were going to reverse it to read Ercadoog. And we would be the Ercadoog Sisters - Nasus and Nosila Ercadoog!
And you think Catherine Zeta Jones is a mouthful (the name that is!)
I'd be nylorac, which sounds like some sort of pain killer, or possibly sleeping pill.
Carla, as a Carolyn I have the same problems as you with people getting my name wrong - usually I'm Caroline or Carol-ann. (And I hate the name Carol-ann, because the one person I know called that is eeevil.)
Duh, have you never heard that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit? And "low" *obviously* means, like, from hell and evil stuff like that.
Even Dubya knows that sarcasm and scath...asm....ingness....whatever.... are symptoms which lead to devil worship and the ritual sacrifice of Apple Macs.
Naillig Rolyat - The first one sounds vaguely Gaelic.
Think I'll stick to plain old Gillian Francess San Valentine Taylor
Two of those four forenames are on my birth certificate. All of them are on the Jobcentre plus records, and reappear every time I sign on. I got whimsical about five years ago when I had to fill in too many forms and got bored. Since then I've had all sorts of enquiries from nice people asking about 'san Valentine'. One lady was convinced it was some kind of traditional family name and thought it was charming. She even wanted to know how 'Valentine' was pronounced.
Didn't have the heart to tell her I'd got it from this alchoholic criminal character I'd invented for a role-playing game