friends of a previous neighbour had a daughter called India. Pronounced 'eendiaah', shouted endlessly across the garden.
Another thing that seems to divide people is shortening names. I like that my given name has half a dozen common shortened versions, so I can change it as I like. But I very often hear parents talking about choosing names that they think can't be shortened.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I really dislike when people can’t be bothered to name their child anything at all, they look out of the window and hit on Sky, River, Tree, Summer, Autumn. Just think of a name for the poor child.
Our new neighbours son is Sonny! It's great to see so much thought put into a name. At least he hasn't been named after a wine like a lot of poor girls in the past.
Love the name Sonny … when I was a child there was a neighbouring farm called Sonny Chittock … he was quite an old man by then (at least he seemed so to me) … he was a lovely man … always helpful and cheerful.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Some people think I sound quite posh. Actual posh people know instantly that I'm not.
You sound normal to me, Didyw. How did I sound?
You both sound normal to me, I was told I had ‘a classless accent’ … I was once cast as a 1960s R3 announcer in a play … but I had to put on a BBC RP accent for that.
Some years ago I'd been in a long meeting. When it finished one of the other attendees said "Where the hell are you from? I can't work out that accent at all". It made me laugh as he wasn't the first person to ask the question. The reality was that my father had been in the RAF and we'd lived all over the place. Consequently I'd picked up bits from everywhere, and I also picked up on accents without realising it during conversations. My mother in law to be apparently told her daughter I had the poshest accent she'd ever heard. That said more about her than about me
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Another thing that seems to divide people is shortening names. I like that my given name has half a dozen common shortened versions, so I can change it as I like. But I very often hear parents talking about choosing names that they think can't be shortened.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Our new neighbours son is Sonny! It's great to see so much thought put into a name. At least he hasn't been named after a wine like a lot of poor girls in the past.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Some years ago I'd been in a long meeting. When it finished one of the other attendees said "Where the hell are you from? I can't work out that accent at all". It made me laugh as he wasn't the first person to ask the question. The reality was that my father had been in the RAF and we'd lived all over the place. Consequently I'd picked up bits from everywhere, and I also picked up on accents without realising it during conversations. My mother in law to be apparently told her daughter I had the poshest accent she'd ever heard. That said more about her than about me