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oldbloke ([personal profile] oldbloke) wrote2004-06-23 02:11 pm

Colleagues

Nary a word from Tanya for 6 months, suddenly here she is in the office with a child called Aneurin, quite a cute kid.

[identity profile] k425.livejournal.com 2004-06-23 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
I think you're allowed to, when you're Welsh.

[identity profile] eyekiller.livejournal.com 2004-06-23 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
S'no excuse. What about when the kid has to meet people other than it's parents.

[identity profile] oldbloke.livejournal.com 2004-06-23 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, she called the first one Caleb.
This one will end up as Nye, anyway.

[identity profile] eyekiller.livejournal.com 2004-06-24 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Caleb is an excellent name.
Aneurin will end up being teased.

[identity profile] k425.livejournal.com 2004-07-01 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
Kids get teased anyway, whatever you call them!

[identity profile] eyekiller.livejournal.com 2004-07-01 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah but there's no point giving them extra ammo.

[identity profile] imc.livejournal.com 2004-06-23 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
It'll be OK so long as they teach him how to spell "its". <gdr>

[identity profile] k425.livejournal.com 2004-06-24 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
What, like the kids called Easter, Brooklyn, Pagan and Cannabis? At least Aneurin's a proper name!

[identity profile] burkesworks.livejournal.com 2004-06-24 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
That's as may be, but so are "Enoch", "George W.", and "Anthony Charles Lynton". And none of those could possibly look as though they rhyme with "urine" (okay, I know it doesn't in Welsh, but I can do pedantry too!).
Anyway, apart from the late and sometimes great Mr. Bevan, how many other people called Aneurin have you even heard of, let alone met? With a moniker like that, the poor kid's life is going to be hell even if he were to be educated in a Welsh-language school in a non-conformist chapel somewhere the other side of Llareggub Hill.
BTW, isn't "aneurine" another name for vitamin B1?

[identity profile] k425.livejournal.com 2004-07-01 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
I've met a couple of Aneurins, acksherly. And seen exam papers with that name from 7 and 10 year olds. It's still going, in Wales.

[identity profile] burkesworks.livejournal.com 2004-06-24 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
> What, like the kids called Easter, Brooklyn, Pagan and Cannabis?

Were you in Hebden Bridge last week, by any chance?

[identity profile] oldbloke.livejournal.com 2004-06-28 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
We popped down on Sunday (20th) to pick up some recycled-materials compostable disposable nappies, and also had a look in a coupld of other shops.

[identity profile] k425.livejournal.com 2004-07-01 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, but I got the names from a cutting my Mum sent me, from Watford.

Actually, the registrar refused to register Cannabis under that name!