My mum saved this for me as she thought it would amuse me. Apparently she always reads the birth columns to giggle at daft names and funny adjectives ('a tiny son', for example). She doesn't read the deaths column because there aren't so many funny names to be found there. Just old ones.
Mum: You should always give a child one bog-standard name and one exotic one.
Me: So, is my exotic one Helen or Catherine?
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Hmmmm - well they're both Greek names - Catherine meaning 'pure' and Helen meaning 'light' or 'shining one'. Canny exotic like.
Kelly = Irish 'Warrior maid'
Anne = Hebrew 'Grace'.
If anyone knows me even slightly, you'll find that i'm the least graceful person in the world, and I usually can't be arsed to kick off at people. Cripes. I was going to be called Douglas though.
Douglas-Anne Mounsey?
apparently, my name means light (helen) and truth (ruth), which i always find a bit funny
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