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  • Nominative determinism – teachers
  • MoreCashThanDash
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    My lads new timetable reveals that he has Mrs Bramley for cookery and Mrs Banger for science.

    Don’t remember any when I was at school though – how about you?

    sharkattack
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    No teachers but we went on a school trip once to Hadrian’s Wall and met an archaeologist called Mr. Bone.

    Spin
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    They’re probably aptonyms rather than nominative determinism.

    Spin
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    I knew a guy called Jim Hall who was a PE teacher.

    Cougar
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    milky1980
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    We had a Mr Rice at my school.

    He taught woodwork but would usually appear in the Home Ec lab over the corridor as the cakes finished baking 😀

    surfer
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    I used to work with a guy called Dan Dare. I kid you not

    MoreCashThanDash
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    I’d forgotten my post on that previous thread – must have had a bad day in the office!

    northernmatt
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    A local school had a Mr Dick, he was Head of Year 9.

    29erKeith
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    Mrs Potter who was an art teacher but the only one who did all the pottery classes

    gwaelod
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    Had a music teacher at school called Mr C Sharp

    gordimhor
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    Had a former workmate called Richard Head. As I know it is an aptonym I have no interest in finding out whether it was nominative determinism or not.

    ourmaninthenorth
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    Dr Cain was an erstwhile deputy headmaster.

    loddrik
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    Had a music teacher called Mrs Singer.

    Also had a history teacher with a severe turn in his eye, worse than Marty Feldman, his name was BD Jones.

    brocks
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    Wasn’t a teacher but the principal at technical college Isaac hunt

    Scapegoat
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    I knew a cop called Nick Moore.

    Ambrose
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    My friend and colleague of 25 years retired recently. She taught cookery, very well indeed. Her surname was Thomas, hence her nickname, Thomas Cook.

    squirrelking
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    Mrs Banger

    Good job she’s not doing sex ed then.

    DrJ
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    My sister’s dentist is called Mr Dentith.

    globalti
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    My agent in Zimbabwe is called Innocent Dick. He’s far from innocent though.

    There used to be a plumber in Ramsbottom called Gordon Fish.

    I used to know a gardener called Dan Digweed.

    matt_outandabout
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    None.

    However, my sister in law refused to take her husbands surname when they married. As a primary teacher ‘Mrs Sowerbutts’ may not have gone down without a few titters….

    StefMcDef
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    Saw a driving instructor out and about yesterday with his name, Barry Parkes, writ large on the side of his car.

    BillMC
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    I used to drive past an estate agents in Vic, Aus, called Robin Daley.

    ourmaninthenorth
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    my sister in law refused to take her husbands surname when they married

    I worked with a chap whose surname was Hoare.

    His wife, who also worked there, chose to retain her maiden name.

    StefMcDef
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    Also near me is a guy who sells second-hand tack and equestrian equipment.
    His name?
    Nick Whipps.

    Tom_W1987
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    “The Symptoms, Nature, Cause, and Cure of a Gonorrhoea” – By William Cockburn

    http://www.amazon.com/Symptoms-Nature-Cause-Cure-Gonorrhoea/dp/1235597695

    MoreCashThanDash
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    Tom has just won todays internet!

    anagallis_arvensis
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    We have a Mr Money at my current school. He’s in the wrong job!

    Ambrose
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    I forgot to add that the woman who cleans my lab is called Column. Colleen the cleaner.

    Bregante
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    I work with PC Sergeant

    toys19
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    My mate is a teacher, called Mr Wright, he likes to be too.
    I knew a lecturer called Peter Nurse, his wife was called Anne.

    BillMC
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    On my PGCE course there was a girl called Shirley Kitcat. She changed it by deed-poll after the first teaching practice. My local primary had a Miss Barstead, parents would struggle with the spelling when writing absence notes.

    oxym0r0n
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    Not a teacher, but a urologist locally: Mr Burns-Cox

    /thread closed

    Ambrose
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    @Bregante- not Peter Sergeant, from Machynlleth by any chance?

    Cougar
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    On my PGCE course there was a girl called Shirley Kitcat.

    When I worked in support we had a user called Wayne P Kitcat. Maybe a relation?

    boxelder
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    I know a Bill Dingwall – unfortunately not in the construction industry.

    mt
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    Guy dealt with at International Flavour, Mr Liquorice

    langylad
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    Bregante, he has been promoted in our force. We have a sergeant Sergeant.
    In the village i used to live in we had a Jack Frost and a Peter Rabbit

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