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Potty, Fartwell and Knob: From Luke Warm to Minty Badger - Extraordinary But True Names of British People by Russell Ash
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Potty, Fartwell and Knob: From Luke Warm to Minty Badger - Extraordinary…

by Russell Ash

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This is very typical of the sort of book that I'm reading at the moment. It doesn't have any narrative to speak of, so doesn't require any determined or extended period of reading. You can literally enjoy a page and then move on...

The idea is simple. The names that people have been given in the past are now able to raise a smile, a giggle, or even occasionally a guffaw. Some of them rely on the change in word meaning (Fanny which is *much* ruder in UK English than American English) or on the combination of initials and surname.

A pleasant way of passing a few minutes! ( )
  fieldri1 | May 8, 2009 |
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