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This topic has 44 replies, 32 voices, and was last updated 10 March 2022 at 14:15 by Georgineer.

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4 March 2022 at 19:30 #588187
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4 March 2022 at 19:30 #36776
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4 March 2022 at 20:06 #588196
Brian Wood
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Many years ago our Bank manager [remember them?!!] was called Lenderyou
4 March 2022 at 20:14 #588200
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4 March 2022 at 22:03 #588210
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Posted by br on 04/03/2022 20:14:22:

Posted by Brian Wood on 04/03/2022 20:06:36:

Many years ago our Bank manager [remember them?!!] was called Lenderyou

Was his christian name BOB

Bank managers – they seem to be collectors items these days

My father visited his quite often I recall in the old days – he approved of his sherry.

Bob is very good – I've been struggling to make a joke out of Mark.

How the other half live! I've never been given sherry by a Bank Manager. Had a letter from one once, 'please do not anticipate your credit…'

Dave
4 March 2022 at 22:46 #588216
Calum
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There is a lady on Twitter, a freelance journalist, who rejoices in the name of Ms Hedges-Stocks – alas, she has yet to join the financial pages.
5 March 2022 at 07:53 #588222
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5 March 2022 at 09:42 #588232
bricky
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A ground worker who worked for our firm was call bob but was reffered to as shilling.

Frank
5 March 2022 at 11:10 #588249
Graham Stoppani
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As a teenager opening my first bank account in the 70's I was interviewed by the local branch manager of Barclays to see if I was worthy of their services… When the manager asked me why I'd chosen to bank with them, I confidently replied

"Because may father barks at Banklays!" doh!

Edited By Graham Stoppani on 05/03/2022 11:34:51
5 March 2022 at 11:20 #588252
Bill Phinn
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Some more financial surnames:

Banks, Cash, Money, Bond, Spender, Coin, Note,

Purse, Spender, Loan, Borrow, Rich, Poor, Broke.
5 March 2022 at 11:30 #588255
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5 March 2022 at 14:24 #588278
Roger Vane
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Slightly different topic, but once went to a dentist whose surname was Mercy
5 March 2022 at 15:06 #588289
Georgineer
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Posted by Roger Vane on 05/03/2022 14:24:22:

Slightly different topic, but once went to a dentist whose surname was Mercy

Three of my fellow apprentices were named Pope, Mercy and Heaven.

Back to the financial topic, my son's former music teacher is called Tanner.

George
5 March 2022 at 15:59 #588295
larry phelan 1
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I remember seeing on "That,s life" there was an Estate Agent named Robin Bastard.

I,m not joking, even Ester laughed at it.

I often wondered how he stayed in business with a name like that, but perhaps people regarded him as an "Honest" man ? As far as I remember, he was very sucessful, so, what,s in a name ?
5 March 2022 at 16:10 #588298
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5 March 2022 at 16:14 #588299
bricky
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My last dentists name was Payne.

Frank
5 March 2022 at 20:36 #588332
Michael Briggs
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Some years ago I got a tax demand from HMRC, signed by Mr Leech.
6 March 2022 at 07:52 #588367
Perko7
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Don't know if you had them in the UK but in Australia we also had the Threepence, Florin and Crown. The Threepence (or Thrippenny) was of course 3 pence, the Florin was 2 shillings (24 pence) and the Crown was 5 shillings. I always though the Florin sounded French.
6 March 2022 at 08:07 #588368
Michael Gilligan
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I am a little surprised that Miss Moneypenney hasn’t got a look-in … but I suppose that goes with the characterisation.

MichaelG.
6 March 2022 at 10:13 #588380
roy entwistle
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I've still got a Groat ( 4d )

Roy
6 March 2022 at 16:30 #588457
Harry Wilkes
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We must not forget James Bond's Miss Moneypenny I have no more to offer money related but a pub local to me where I'd often go to eat the Landlord name was Christmas his christen name was Chris and his wife's was Mary alas to nice people long since gone

H
6 March 2022 at 18:47 #588488
mark costello 1
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Dental Surgeon here named Cutright. Did it wrong once, removed 2 perfectly good front teeth on the wrong Patient.
6 March 2022 at 19:30 #588498
Nicholas Farr
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Hi, I don't know if it counts, but my mum called me a "daft ha'p'orth" a few times when I was a kid, and she was probably right.

Regards Nick.
6 March 2022 at 19:47 #588500
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6 March 2022 at 20:13 #588504
Bazyle
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I never give any thought to the meaning/derivation of my own surname when giving it nor to other peoples' when I meet them. With so many non-anglo-saxons in my acquaintance now I wonder how many have equivalent connotations of occupation/lineage etc as the ones I can understand.
Many of the oddities in UK names and spellings were introduced in the 18th century when barely literate clergy started to make written records of births and marriages and had to interpret local accents to put on paper for the very first time a family's name. It then became their legal identity to be copied when a later generation finally learned to write more than just an X. Records sometimes show changes is a name as a succeeding cleric struggled to read/write and created a new version.
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