About the book
There’s one born every minute. Or, to be more precise, there’s 1.2 babies born every minute in England and Wales alone. And every one of them has to be named. But only in Britain does this naming process take on preposterous proportions, only in Britain is there a nuttiness of nomenclature that beggars belief.
What were Mr and Mrs Buckett thinking of when they named their daughter Urina? And what went through the Willys’ minds when they called their daughter Henrietta, or the Turners when they called their child Page? Who would have thought there were so many Nipples and Bums, and Strokers and Tossers in the UK?
In this painstakingly researched, utterly true, hilariously entertaining book, Russell Ash has found real-life examples in dusty parish registers, censuses and birth, marriage and death records of some of the most extraordinary, daft, rude, crazy names...
Read this book - and be glad you didn’t have to play in the school playground with any of these names on your nametape.
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The first ever book to document the most unusual, hilarious, silly and downright ridiculous names that have existed in Britain in the last millennium.
Paperback £6.99