NAME COINCIDENCES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20592, 15 December 1928, Page 15

NAME COINCIDENCES.

SOME INTERESTING EXAMPLES. In Paris recently three guests who booked rooms at an hotel were named respectively Footman, Gardner, and Nurse! This is by no means an isolated example ot name coincidences (writes “ Vauxhall ” in the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle). Some two mouths ago three defendants in a London Police Court gave their names as Jack Christmas, Edward Frost, and George- Snowden. In the same court a Mrs Cook was charged with assaulting a Mrs Sprat! Another amusing example was furnished in an English court when a man called Warr complained that he had been assaulted. The person who committed the assault stepped up, and immediately answered to the name of Makepeace, Much amusement can often be derived from' a perusal of the marriage columns of the daily' newspapers. For instance, who could help smiling at the announcement in the London Press of the marriage of a Miss Linnet to a Mr Nightingale? Other marriages took place between Law and Clerk, Fisher and Poole, Dance and 'Strutt, Fisher and Crabbe, Butler and Brewer, Sword and Sword, while recent “ wills ” columns contained such combinations as Dickie and Bird, Hunt and Stagg, Beer and Porter, Hall and Lodge, Charles and Chaplin. • Shjp’s passenger lists often contain an amusing mixture of names. Many of the well-known liners bound for America frequently have on board a Gunn and Cannon, Ford and Carr, Charles and Chaph_ n >. and Biggar, Barbour and Hair, Little and Good, Farmer and Hay, the “ colour line ” being maintained by Black. Brown, Grey, Green, White, Blue! and Pink.

Hotel resistors are another source of tiame mixtures. _ Such names as Earl, Eord. Duke, Prince. Kaiser, King, and Knight are easily found, while a miser would have no difficulty in finding Cash, Money, Goldie, Pounds, Shilling, Crown, and Penny. Probably, however, the record for name coincidences falls to a well-known firm who advertised for a male assistant. The first three applicants, entirely unacquainted with each other, who were interviewed, wore named respectively Scotland, England, and Ireland.