Name changing

[Stringent]

Does anyone ever get called by their last name, constantly?

There are about 3 people which use my first name, everyone else refers to me by my last one.

This happens a lot in the US (Government stuff, milatary, Police etc) not as much here.

[IBM]

Erm... something more English?

Such as? Just curious what an 'English' name would be? 'Roast Beef' perhaps?

[Stringent]

Such as? Just curious what an 'English' name would be? 'Roast Beef' perhaps?

Fish n Chips?

[Korky]

my names Kyle and iv not got a problem with it. its not common but not too uncommon. why dont you like it?

[Stewart]

Dunno.

John Bull?

He seemed to be put off by the Hebrew stuff...

EDIT - Turns out John is Hebrew as well. Tricky this name changing stuff.

[Destroyer^]

what about changing your middle name... lets say my name was david poll......

what about changing it to david ihaveabigone poll?

or David iloveanimalsnotinabadway Poll

[JK Ferret]

Can I live in your brain plz? (And did you get Mass Effect this morning?)

You can try And no, I checked first thing when I fell out of bed at about 12 o'clock

Does anyone ever get called by their last name, constantly?

Quite a ways through school, I was. And also in the Air Cadets, but that was rather required.

And, if you really want to be pretentious, you can get your name changed either by HM The Queen, or by Act of Parliament. Good luck organising (and paying for) either of those, though.

SIRacen, by any chance?

Oh, no. No no no no no. Nope, uh-uh, naw, no way. Nein, non, nyet, nej, nee, na, nem, iya, ne-keh, zhog and meiyou.

Question! What langueages are they then?

...helpful as ever.

@ JK; do you already introduce yourself to new people you meet as 'JK'? Just thinking that if most people already call you that, you're only having to put up with your actual name from family (presumably) & on official stuff. Guess you could consider adding an actual first J name to yours so that in effect you could use JK for pretty much most things and it'd be a halfway house?
Also the younger you are when you start using a different name the better, because everyone you meet from then on won't know you as anything else - unless you then go off your new name & change back...

Lolz @ iGod

Adding a J name could actually be a better idea than outright change to JK, sort of a middle-name-at-the-front jobbie

my names Kyle and iv not got a problem with it. its not common but not too uncommon. why dont you like it?

Well, the main reason was the glaringly obvious mispronounciation that I had to deal with all through school. Having a famous Australian singer with that name really didn't help my cause.
(By the way, Kyle is rather more popular in the USA than it is over here)

[Saracen]

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Question! What langueages are they then?

The first few are English. Though I guess you might have got that far.

The rest include German, French, Russian, Swedish, Pashto, Hungarian (Magyar), Japanese, Kashmiri, Kazakh and Mandarin.

Oh, and Nee is common to many, including some forms of German (colloquial), Dutch, Low Saxon and Afrikaans.

[yamangman]

Oh, and Nee is common to many, including some forms of German (colloquial), Dutch, Low Saxon and Afrikaans.

And Scottish! Ach I int nee seen so many no's!

[mediaboy]

How many of those languages are you fluent in?

[Funkstar]

And Scottish! Ach I int nee seen so many no's!

Shouldn't that be "naw's"?

[Mrs Dak]

Changing your name can upset your Granny tho'

http://news.uk.msn.com/odd-news/arti...entID=10631085

[JK Ferret]

Changing your name can upset your Granny tho'

http://news.uk.msn.com/odd-news/arti...entID=10631085

Ah well, that's rather more of an 'extreme' case though

[idimmu]

my official name is John, but i've been called Jack all my life by everyone... so its quite odd getting called John for official stuff. I have to admit I am used to it now and respond to both!

[Stringent]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7707971.stm

[JK Ferret]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7707971.stm

Covered about three posts above yours