Things that sound like names and names that sound like things

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  • degsyhufcdegsyhufc Posts: 59,251
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    Pruitt Taylor Vince sounds like a law firm
  • degsyhufcdegsyhufc Posts: 59,251
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    Troy Adeeny

    Sounds like a magician.


    The Great Troyadeeny
  • howardlhowardl Posts: 5,120
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    Placenta...lovely name for a girl.
  • degsyhufcdegsyhufc Posts: 59,251
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    Here's a name I spotted in the credits of a tv show

    Sorrell Potter
  • RaferRafer Posts: 14,231
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    Leighton Buzzard should be an American news reader.

    Meanwhile. Orson Welles should be a village in Somerset.
  • Fairyprincess0Fairyprincess0 Posts: 30,061
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    Barret homes sounds like sherlocks younger brother....
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    Sting is a wasp Lol
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 53,142
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    Shakespear sister sounds like Britney spears' sister :D
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    Kate Adie sounds like a hill in The Pennines ....
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    sandi toksvig sounds like a woman sunbathing on beach who gets something trapped inside her bikini bottom .....
  • LyceumLyceum Posts: 3,399
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    Tarka Dal is surely the name of a children's book author and not a dish made of lentils.
  • spiney2spiney2 Posts: 27,058
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    "you, England's highest mountain, what is your name ?" "don't tell him, Scafell Pike ...."
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    "bjork" happens after too many curries and lagers. And biophilia results from drinking laundry detergent .......
  • seventhwaveseventhwave Posts: 4,967
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    "Alexia" is a feminine name but is also an alternative name for dyslexia ...
  • coldcomfortcoldcomfort Posts: 778
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    Westward Ho! sounds like an epic adventure film.
  • SonOfPurpleSonOfPurple Posts: 2,650
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    I always thought Justice was a title used for judges (as in Mr or Ms Justice <last name>?) :confused:

    It can also be a surname, as in Victoria Justice. So in theory, if the actress had a part-African relative called Justice who became a judge, she'd be Ms. Justice Justice Justice...
    The actress Googie Withers always sounded like a rather vague diagnosis by a vet.

    "What's wrong with your horse? Well, its withers are a bit ... y'know ... em ... a bit googie!" :o

    The Two Ronnies had a gag on this - the topic was 'health tips from popular actresses' and the quip was "Tonight, your very own Googie Withers - and what to do if it does..."

    My own personal favourite is Leighton Meester, a cheese-making village in the West Country region. Or a star of Gossip Girl, you decide...
  • LakieLadyLakieLady Posts: 19,719
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    Ashby De La Zouch is certainly a matinee idol movie star from the 1930s.


    I always think that about Compton Pauncefoot and Kenton Mandeville.

    Sturminster Newton sounds like a variety of apple.
  • LakieLadyLakieLady Posts: 19,719
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    One of my favourite Victorian antiquarians. Reformation Churches of Wiltshire & Gloucestershire is a classic of its kind, and his little-known pamphlet on the wild herbs in witches' ointments, building on the work of Milton Keynes, is a truly fascinating piece of historical research.

    I always thought Milton Keynes was an economist.
  • LakieLadyLakieLady Posts: 19,719
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    It can also be a surname, as in Victoria Justice. So in theory, if the actress had a part-African relative called Justice who became a judge, she'd be Ms. Justice Justice Justice......

    There was a judge whose surname was Judge. I thought it was a typo the first time I saw "Judge Judge" in print.
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    There's an East Sussex auction house called Gorringes, which sounds like an old name for an illness: a form of gout affecting the elbows or something.
  • Fairyprincess0Fairyprincess0 Posts: 30,061
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    Milton kyenes is an Oxford don....
  • SonOfPurpleSonOfPurple Posts: 2,650
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    I've remembered another one, that owes a lot to the distinction between Irish and English names. When someone mentions Cillian Murphy, my response is "who's Ian Murphy, and why do you want him dead?" (Apologies to the real Ian Murphy, if there is such a person looking in)...
  • degsyhufcdegsyhufc Posts: 59,251
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    Aubrey Plaza sounds like a New York location

    Edit: Just seen I posted the same at the top of the page :blush:
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    The Star Trek actor 'Brent Spiner' sounds like a birth defect
  • spiney2spiney2 Posts: 27,058
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    Graham Norton might be a tiny Cotswold village .....
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