Best not be too hasty. What’s the surname? Wouldn’t want to be called Helen Highwater or Helen Back, for instance
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True. But maybe an improvement on Crumpets Helen Highwater though?
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(My ex knew a guy at university with the extremely unfortunate name of Guy Rimmer. Never sure if the fact that he was extremely gay and could use his name as a chat up line in some circumstances made this better or worse.)
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Most people’s parents seem to have planned this through. Although I did once know a Huw John, who occasionally pronounced it “Juan” for the same purposes And Jo King was much more insistent on people using her full name than Nat West was
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Went to school with a Helen Beck, genuinely.
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