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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Taking names (with meanings) from other languages and then calling them "bad scrabble hands" as if you're not just mimicking every Brit who is angry that our languages use their Latin letters in ways they don't like.

English names are all just jobs. Tanner. Weaver. Miller. Chandler.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I only like REAL english names like Æthelstan, Ælfflæd, Hyglac or Laȝamon

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I know a Brit whose first name is Classic

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

classic

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

classic

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Hey now, English names can also be place names (eg Atwater, Beckham, Howe) or French (Beaumont, Granger, Romilly etc).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Gooner, also

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

English names are all just jobs.

lmao also https://www.ancestry.com/last-name-meaning/coomer

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