Help! My daughter can't marry Mr Willey

My daughter married a lovely chap but his surname end with 'cock'. I am able to tell the name to others now with a straight face but it took some getting used to!

As far as I know, there has not been any ribbing at the GC's school so perhaps it's just me.....!

My daughter has kept her maiden name for professional purposes!

My colleague hated the idea of having to wear a name badge in public with Social Worker added, so when we went to Court next day he had a new badge... Warwick Hunt. The Judge had a hard time stifling his amusement.

Yes Kryslam, the surname "King" can have problems - my Grandson is named Nicki (it was a fait- accompli before we were informed and could point out potential teasing) , as an adult he is always known as Nick married a lovely girl called Faye.

My school friend Penny married a Mr Farthing. There was a lad who joined the army as a private with the surname Parts.

Not the same context - but 44 years ago it amused me that the Health Visitor at my antenatal classes, who advocated breast feeding, was called Miss Succamore!

It cd be worse - he might have been a Ramsbottom!

A friend of mine's married name was Dick so their children had the surname too. When they were at school, she had to change their surname for two reasons. One was that they were teased mercilessly and the other was that their name was perpetually being flagged up by the computer systems for inappropriate content and so they couldn't be sent any communications from school!

Someone in my wider family has the surname Hussey. When she found she was expecting a baby girl, her mother had to persuade her that calling her Scarlett was not a good idea.

Also, I recently found in my family history there are some de Kocks. I'm glad that didn't come down to me!

I knew a medic with the same name but pronounced as Wylee

My daughter married someone with a very unusual name. My son in law doesn't like it, his mother thinks it's a bit embarrassing but we have got used to it now and rather like it . Nobody round here can spell it correctly though; It is apparently an old Hertfordshire name. More, I am not prepared to divulge.
When I was a librarian there were three customers named Grief, Anguish and Argument.

Used to work with a Wancke. He pronounced his name Vankee but his pupils didn't.

My friend taught in a school where the Head gloried in the name of Miss Rebecca Soles!

My mother is named Olive, she married my father whose surname was Greene...! I do wonder, genuinely wonder rather than disapprove, why young women still change their names on marriage. Does anyone know he answer to this question? When I asked my husbands nieces they unfriended me on Facebook, and I really was only asking a question out of interest.

I didn't change my name and my husband regularly gets addressed as Mr Greene lol!

At school our music teacher was Miss Trumper.

Both my daughters in law and also my daughter have all retained there maiden name, at least for work. It seems to be becoming common. My daughter gets very cross when people (usually elderly relatives) address envelopes to her in her husbands name as in 'Mrs John Smith' (not his real name)

Years ago we knew a Mr. Swarbrick, not a problem until I badly mispronounced it when introducing him to the Lord Mayor at an exceedingly posh event......
Talk about a monumental cockup ....[ blush]

DH couldn't look him in the face for months!

One of my work colleagues knows a man who goes by the name of Dick Checker ( I'm smiling now as I type; gets me every time!)....

LoopyLou ! Am I seeing an 'm' and a 'p' being substituted for the 'w' and 'b'?
I can imagine your embarrassment !!

Apols for the caps in your name. I hadn't checked

mamaa your colleague's acquaintance reminds me of Italian men strolling along the sea edge for the passeggiata. They do this all the time. Or maybe they just itch excessively?

My father had a friend who was married to a Polish man called Carlos Kent. My father remarked that Kent was an unusual name for a Pole and was told that she had insisted she change one letter in it before she would marry him.

I have a great friend of many years who retained the name Willey when she married in the 1960s. Her husband has a lovely surname but she wanted to keep her own.
On the other hand, my Mother in Law had her husband-to-be change his name by deed poll prior to getting married as she didn't want to be a Ramsbottom. Ramsbottom or course is a perfectly respectable place name - but I think it's not such a great name to go through school with!

MoBrown she could be double barrelled...Brown-Willey ?

I used to know an ex-teacher (a spinster) who was always delighted when we saw her old pupils in the street and remembered all of their names. One day as we passed a man, who greeted her warmly, she later told me that he was called Dick - unfortunately his surname was Head. I later discovered that he insisted on being called Richard but I never had the heart to update her on the modern interpretation - she was a true lady and would have been devastated.

My cousin Lee King. Went to school with a Debbie Duck. And knew an Ivor Windebrow .

I had a friend called Marjorie Dawe. I lived opposite a Mary Lamb and her brother was called Jack Horner.