'Difficult' (?!) names - Djamoladin Abdujaparov

[Cyril Haearn]

Thanks Pete, that is interesting. One learns things on this forum which are nothing to do with cycling.
Is the word "h.....s" ineffable here, only to be pronounced in the secret subforum?

Please not to mention the p*******e fairy either
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There are some fora members here with right queer names too, I like names derived from trades, or descriptive names, Thatcher or Major for example (was he a soldier?)

[Mike Sales]

There are some fora members here with right queer names too, I like names derived from trades, or descriptive names, Thatcher or Major for example (was he a soldier?)

Remember Major Major Major Major in Catch 22 ?

[661-Pete]

There are some fora members here with right queer names too, I like names derived from trades, or descriptive names, Thatcher or Major for example (was he a soldier?)

Remember Major Major Major Major in Catch 22 ?

Dickens is noted for dreaming up weird names for his characters. Like Pecksniff, Bumble, Toodles, Wopsle, and many more .... the crowning glory, to my mind, being "M'Choakumchild" (a minor character in Hard Times).

As it happens, the head teacher of my primary school was a Mrs Goodchild. Quite an appropriate name for a teacher, don't you think?

[thirdcrank]

... As it happens, the head teacher of my primary school was a Mrs Goodchild. Quite an appropriate name for a teacher, don't you think?

And easy to pronounce, even for those who don't feel the need to try very hard.

[Cyril Haearn]

Remco Evenepoel, the new Merckx?
Plus One!

[Cyril Haearn]

I do wish broadcasters would bother to learn and pronounce and use names, they keep talking about 'the president of the Ukraine', although 'Wolodomyr Zelenskij' is easy enough to pronounce I think

Is the Pronunciation Unit at the bbc still active? Maybe I could get a job there

[mercalia]

why do foreigners have such names?