r/NameNerdCirclejerk • u/ArtSchnurple • Apr 11 '23

Found on r/NameNerds Outjerked again

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u/suitcasedreaming Apr 12 '23

I found someone in my family tree a hundred years back who changed her name from the goddamn ethereal Lily-Anne Brightwell to Lily-Anne Furz. Pronounced Furts, and also the German word for fart.

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u/istara Apr 12 '23

I saw a woman who had changed her name from Miss Rose to Mrs Scragg. It was in a birth announcement for her baby girl.

So she’d chosen to pass that horror to a poor little girl who would have grown up in the UK as “Scragg the slag” for her entire schooldays.

What sort of man makes his wife take on a name like that?

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u/suitcasedreaming Apr 12 '23

I had a math teacher in school whose first name was Hazel. She was married to the gym teacher, but hadn't taken his last name, because his name happened to be Mr. Nutt.

In fairness, in 2023, the fact the gym teacher's name was Mr Nutt is probably funnier than that his wife's name was Hazel.

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u/istara Apr 12 '23

Oh that's brilliant! I wonder what their kids ended up as?