Middle names


I use my middle name instead of my first name. Always have. No idea why!!
First word blindness?
Poor memory?
You like annoying your parents?
Your patents said you had two Christian names, but they only told you one?

These are only guesses like.
Get much done in the workshop these days mate?
Will do now because I've called it a day with 'er indoors. I've got a summer house down the way, but will still look out for her and do music. Problem is our friendship is enormous and maybe leaves no room for romance. Eleven day's in and feels good to be treated with respect.
 
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First word blindness?
Poor memory?
You like annoying your parents?
Your patents said you had two Christian names, but they only told you one?


These are only guesses like.

Will do now because I've called it a day with 'er indoors. I've got a summer house down the way, but will still look out for her and do music. Problem is our friendship is enormous and maybe leaves no room for romance. Eleven day's in and feels good to be treated with respect.
I think it was my Dad`s fault - he gave me a nickname based on y middle name and it stuck. I never responded to my first name so my mother thought I was deaf until my Dad called out my nickname and I responded. I suppose that`s it really. I prefer my middle name anyway so it all ended well.
 
First word blindness?
Poor memory?
You like annoying your parents?
Your patents said you had two Christian names, but they only told you one?

These are only guesses like.

Will do now because I've called it a day with 'er indoors. I've got a summer house down the way, but will still look out for her and do music. Problem is our friendship is enormous and maybe leaves no room for romance. Eleven day's in and feels good to be treated with respect.
Sorry to hear that mate, just keep ploughing on and getting these inventions made in that workshop
 
I use my middle name instead of my first name. Always have. No idea why!!

I know quite a few people who use their middle name rather than their first name.

Both of my grandmothers. I always knew my dad’s mam by her middle name and didn’t even know she had another name until the priest said it at her funeral!
 
I don't have a middle name, but when i was 18-ish when at tech-college, i sat next to a lad whose middle name was "Smiles".

And about 30 years later while working at some YMCA hostel in Jesmond, while fitting bedroom furniture, this same lad phoned in to the radio station i was listening to, to state that his middle name was smiles.

What are the odds of me listening in on the moment he rang in ?

I'm from a large-ish family and only one of us has a middle name.
 
Scottish naming convention.

Funny you say that as I've never heard of that before, yet mine was my Sunderland grandmother's maiden name and I was told it's a NE convention!! (and my sister picked up her first name as a middle name, though as it's Jane and every fifth seems to have that as a middle name anyway...)
 
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Wish I had one as I hate my name. Tried to get the family to call me Phoebe when I was about 13. They wouldn't.
There's a housing development around the Milton Keynes area called Phoebe's Orchard. I used to drive past it regularly when I worked down that way.
 
Funny you say that as I've never heard of that before, yet mine was my Sunderland grandmother's maiden name and I was told it's a NE convention!! (and my sister picked up her first name as a middle name, though as it's Jane and every fifth seems to have that as a middle name anyway...)
I had heard that it was a Scottish thing to use surnames as middle names. But I think family surnames used as middle names is common nationwide. A lot of our family do, based East Anglia, the south of England, and more.
 
My family don't really do middle names. Our lass's does though. I'm not keen on the middle name she gave the bairn but we can just pretend it doesn't exist.
 
I know quite a few people who use their middle name rather than their first name.

Both of my grandmothers. I always knew my dad’s mam by her middle name and didn’t even know she had another name until the priest said it at her funeral!

My mam and her siblings (4 others) all had first and middle names. Bar 1 of them out of the 5, none use either. For me it was uncle or auntie ‘this name’ and until I got to a teenager, I didn’t know their actual names.

My mam’s name is quite old school, she’s now 62 and it was old school back in the 80’s and 90’s. She goes by her nickname so to speak. The name which was given to her by her brothers who decided she looked like one of the local stray dogs and just started calling her that.
 

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