A to Z of Historical names.

[SaskiaKC]

David Lloyd George

 

[mo53]

Eden, Anthony

 

[SaskiaKC]

***** Brice

LOL her first name got *'d out -- I forgot that ***** means something really really unmentionable in the UK!

I will just put F Brice, Ziegfield star of Broadway.

- E Brice.

 

[mo53]

Gaskell, Elizabeth

 

[SaskiaKC]

Henry II

 

[Deleted member 308541]

Indira Ghandi

 

[SaskiaKC]

Andrew Johnson

 

[Robbity]

Nikita Khrushchev

 

[Robbity]

***** Brice
LOL her first name got *'d out -- I forgot that ***** means something really really unmentionable in the UK!

Well actually it is a common abbreviation of Frances and not so long ago we had a very well known English restaurant critic and popular television cook, F*nny Craddock - who must be turning in her grave!
And we have a saying "Sweet F*nny Adams" often abbreviated to "Sweet FA" - meaning "nothing".

It really infuriates me that some popular and well known abbreviations for common British christian names have in the eyes of many forums suddenly been deemed offensive.

 

[SaskiaKC]

Thank you for telling me that, @Robbity . I never knew that about F^nny Adams. I used to think Sweet FA meant Sweet F@¢* All. I remember some time ago another thread *'d out a perfectly innocent 'fowl' word for which we had to substitute 'rooster.' Silly really.

 

[mo53]

Lawrence, T. E

 

[Robbity]

Thank you for telling me that, @Robbity . I never knew that about F^nny Adams. I used to think Sweet FA meant Sweet F@¢* All.

I think it may often be used as that now but certainly wasn't originally!

 

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Mahatma Ghandi

 

[mo53]

Nobel, Alfred

 

[SaskiaKC]

Oscar Hammerstein

 

[SaskiaKC]

I think it may often be used as that now but certainly wasn't originally!

Wasn't it the name of Scrooge's sister, too?

 

[Pasha]

Peter Falk

 

[mo53]

Queen Isabella of Castile

She financed the voyages of Christopher Columbus to the New World.

 

[SaskiaKC]

Richard of Chichester

 

[mo53]

Saint Declan