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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I like my name. It does rhyme with something rude, but I don't mind that so much.
My surname is pretty rare in this country but has popped up in history etc. It's cool, I like it. It's a Scottish name, so it has more roots in a particular area/group of people. It's nice to have a name with roots, I guess. Too many English names don't really mean much of anything, they're just occupational, or *something*'s son.

My first name's OK, inoffensive.
(, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 11:18, 3 replies, latest was 13 years ago)
Jean-Luc?

(, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 11:20, Reply)
Is your name Ace Locking?

(, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 11:21, Reply)
Ace McLocking surely?

(, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 11:24, Reply)
Hahahah 10/10

(, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 11:24, Reply)
I don't get it.

(, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 11:30, Reply)
'Space docking'

(, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 11:43, Reply)
*something*'s son names are Norse in origin
and are more commonly found in the north east and Scotchland, accordingly.

Hope this helps.
(, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 11:24, Reply)
*pillages*

(, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 11:25, Reply)
ACTUALLY
they're also a strong tradition in the Saxon line. *something's*son is a theme you see in cultures with a strong oral history tradition. You see Thomsons and so on down South as much as you do in the North. Gaelic also has a "son of" prefix to a lot of names.

Just mean that the English versions don't tend to have a societal root. There's no tribal structure in the same way as the Gaelic versions.

Hope this helps. Also, you suck.
(, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 11:30, Reply)
I'm bookmarking this subthread so I never forget this epic conversation.

(, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 11:31, Reply)
EDUCATION EDUCATION EDUCATION

(, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 11:33, Reply)
Yeah? Well you're gay.

(, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 11:34, Reply)
Isn't the Gaelic prefix 'O'?

(, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 11:35, Reply)
Or Mac
they mean the same thing, though.
(, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 11:37, Reply)
O' means 'of the clan'
Mac means 'son of'
(, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 11:39, Reply)
Mostly the same thing, then.
My point was that they're tribal identifiers, as opposed to English names, which aren't.
(, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 11:44, Reply)
*prints out thread and frames*

(, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 11:45, Reply)
*moves the bookmark to "best internet" folder*

(, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 11:37, Reply)

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