have u ever asked WHY?

[sweetpea]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9435751.stm

[Arthur Little]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9435751.stm

Around the time of my birth, it was the usual custom for a couple to name their first-born son after his paternal grandfather. However, my father's father had been called Joseph ... which my mother thought sounded old fashioned for a baby! And so I ended up being named Arthur - after my dad.:)

[Ako Si Jamie]

Some of the unusual names I've heard.

Neville Neville (Gary Neville's dad)
Hardwork (The christian name of a guy I used to work with)
Pedestal (The christian name of Maria's friend)

And the most unfortunate....former footballer Wayne Wanklyn. I wondered what they called him for short? :icon_lol:

[sparky]

mate of the wifes name of Vangie Bush i think its a fantastic name:D

[malditako]

we have some funny nicknames in our family...

me and hubby call our baby poobum...even compose a song about it lol

[KeithD]

...... after my dad.:)

Oh :angry: .... Here's me been thinking all these years you had a link to Camelot :cwm3: :kngt:

[raynaputi]

My sister's nickname is Leng-Leng...I have cousins whose nicknmes are Kambal (twins in English, coz she had a twin who died a few days after they were born), Bukloy, Pipoy (after a local tv character which was bald the same as him when he was a kid), Niknik, Nene, Macmac...and a nephew nicknamed Burnok...hahahaha..I always wonder why everytime my aunts and uncles in the province use such names..:rolleyes::icon_lol:

[Arthur Little]

Oh :angry: .... Here's me been thinking all these years you had a link to Camelot :cwm3: :kngt:

:NoNo: ... it's only Queenbee who calls me King Arthur! :icon_lol:

[worthingmale]

do filipinos have nicknames ? as in other parts of Asia ?

and are they used regularly ?

[malditako]

do filipinos have nicknames ? as in other parts of Asia ?

and are they used regularly ?

yeah though not all but almost...and they are use often than their real name...

its a form of endearment as normally the one who calls you by your nicknames are the ones who close to you and known you for a long time....family, friends,,,etc.

[nigel]

I once worked with a guy called "Lou Rowl"

(sounding like loo roll)

[Englishman2010]

I believe that Jim Kerr (of Simple Minds fame) had Mexican half brother called Juan (pronounced Huan)

[scott&ligaya]

Met a Gordon Bennett and a Richard Head,(got their busness cards) and we had our young receptionist tannoy a French colleague we had visiting with the unfortunate name of Jaque Ardonne .. yes Ardonne:icon_lol::icon_lol:
my honey has friends called Ting Ting and Nu Nu ... what ever lol

[gWaPito]

I went to school with a boy called John Thomas.

He took up bodybuilding later in his teens to combat the mickey taking, still better than being called a boy named Sue....I think :rolleyes:

[Steve.r]

I used to work with a guy called Mike Perrins, he had a daughter that he named Leanne Perrins.... saucy :icon_lol:

[Tawi2]

I have known several Thai ladies called Porn :rolleyes:

[JimOttley]

I believe that Jim Kerr (of Simple Minds fame) had Mexican half brother called Juan (pronounced Huan)

Nah ;) his brother was named Paul and was a nutter, real trouble maker.

Saying that every time I saw Jim Kerr he was completely out of his head on something or other.

Saw him and the Minds in the Queen Margaret Union at Glasgow University in early 1979 and on a few other occasions.

I actually went to school with another Jim Kerr.