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[oldbloke]

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

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[k425.livejournal.com]

What, like the kids called Easter, Brooklyn, Pagan and Cannabis? At least Aneurin's a proper name!

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

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?

[k425.livejournal.com]

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.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

> What, like the kids called Easter, Brooklyn, Pagan and Cannabis?

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

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

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.

[k425.livejournal.com]

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!