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Unusual Surnames |
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Mostly people accept that surnames may vary in spelling in ways they wouldn't tolerate in other words. Here are some surnames with unusual spellings. The numbers show how many people with that name were found in the UK Electoral Registers for 2001, out of a total of 43.5 million, with a ceiling of 2000. |
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Baden-Powell, said as 'pole' 19 Batchelor, not 'bachelor' 2000+ Beauchamp 'beechum' 1405 Belvoir 'beaver' 9 Blenkinsopp 2000 Bohun 'boon' 30 Bottomley 'bumley' (Guardian Diary joke form) B'stard, TV character Bucket 'bouquet', TV character Cholmondeley 'chumley' 105 Colquhoun 'carhoon' 2000+ Dalziel 'die-ell' (Edinburgh) 36 Death 'dee-ath' 228 De-Ath 1085 d'Eath 99 Deeth 94 Farquahar 'farker' 3 Featherstonehaugh 'fanshaw' 17 Ffoulkes 'folks' 154 |
Ffrangcon 'franken' 0 Frome 'froom' 44 Jekyll 'jee-kill' 21 Keighley 'Keithley' 1234 Keogh 'key-owe' 2000+ Keynes 'kaynes' 159 Knollys 'nowles' 31 Mainwaring 'mannering' 2000+ Marjoribanks 'marchbanks' 133 Menzies 'mingis' 2000+ Psmith ('the p is silent'), P.G. Wodehouse character Sandys 'sands' 330 St John 'singe-ern' 953 Teatime ('pronounced Teh-ah-tim-eh'), Terry Pratchett character Thorogood 'thoroughgood' 2000+ Urquhart 'erkert' 2000+ |