Why do people (usually immature children) laugh at and even sometimes pick on people cos of their name? I think it's quite sad really.
Your parents picked it and changing it (and on all your accounts and licences etc) is a faff, time consuming and expensive. And would probably make any historians job in the future harder to find out about you.
I had a bit of bother, but not too much. I'm female and part Scottish. My last name is Scottish, but also a fairly common boys name. Kids I went to school with (in England) thought it was wierd that I had a boys name as a last name especially as they didn't realise it was Scottish. What didn't help was the fact that on most school registers, your surname is printed before your first name. Even in sixth form teachers still make the mistakes of calling me it occaissionally when they're not paying attention.
So I didn't get it really bad, but I can sympathise with those that do. A guy at my sixth form has the last name Sparkhall, which is pronounced Sparkle by most people. A group of guys in our class find it hilarious
Why do people (usually immature children) laugh at and even sometimes pick on people cos of their name? I think it's quite sad really.
Your parents picked it and changing it (and on all your accounts and licences etc) is a faff, time consuming and expensive. And would probably make any historians job in the future harder to find out about you.
I had a bit of bother, but not too much. I'm female and part Scottish. My last name is Scottish, but also a fairly common boys name. Kids I went to school with (in England) thought it was wierd that I had a boys name as a last name especially as they didn't realise it was Scottish. What didn't help was the fact that on most school registers, your surname is printed before your first name. Even in sixth form teachers still make the mistakes of calling me it occaissionally when they're not paying attention.
So I didn't get it really bad, but I can sympathise with those that do. A guy at my sixth form has the last name Sparkhall, which is pronounced Sparkle by most people. A group of guys in our class find it hilarious
Sort of answered your own question in the first sentence there didn't you?
Children are immature and silly and will pick on others for childish reasons. They'll grow out of it eventually, but that's just how children are at that age
Sort of answered your own question in the first sentence there didn't you?
Children are immature and silly and will pick on others for childish reasons. They'll grow out of it eventually, but that's just how children are at that age
Even adults have a laugh at my name... (when they don't know I can hear)... It's shadab :L but yep!
But no one can get me confused then, so who cares, they still like me :P
Sort of answered your own question in the first sentence there didn't you?
Children are immature and silly and will pick on others for childish reasons. They'll grow out of it eventually, but that's just how children are at that age
But sixth formers still do it to the guy with Sparkhall as his last name
Well there aren't many Scottish surnames that are guys names are there. I'm not telling you it exactly, but it's one of the following; Cameron, Craig, Elliot, Graham, Maxwell, Stewart. And cos they haven't got a Mc or Mac, English kids especially don't realise that they're just normal Scottish surnames.
Even adults have a laugh at my name... (when they don't know I can hear)... It's shadab :L but yep!
But no one can get me confused then, so who cares, they still like me :P
To be fair that is kinda funny the first time you hear it
First name being Mohammed, I did for some reason get a lot of white people calling me "Mooooo-ham-ed" and a few silly jokes about having 'ham on my head'. But meh, once you get out of school it's never been a huge issue.
But sixth formers still do it to the guy with Sparkhall as his last name
It's sort of silly of them but it's not like they're bullying the crap out of him I suppose I guess it's just the 'classroom setting' that's bringing it out. I doubt it'd ever be much more than a remark in adult life.
It's sort of silly of them but it's not like they're bullying the crap out of him I suppose I guess it's just the 'classroom setting' that's bringing it out. I doubt it'd ever be much more than a remark in adult life.
It was quite a way into the year before the guys realised his last name- they then made a load of twilight jokes. I think most of the teachers tried to say it slow so it did sound like spark-hall rather than sparkle.