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Game of Thrones name sparks passport mix-up for family
(www.bbc.co.uk)
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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2024
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The Passport Office has admitted that it was a mistake and have sorted this out. The interesting question is how this happened. I've known a few people who work their and they aren't beyond dicking about - back in the day they might mess with famous people by sticking their photograph on upside down. I could see them doing something like this is they thought someone had a stupid name.
It is a stupid name. Why lumber the kid with an unnecessarily daft name? It's not even easy to spell.
I've got a somewhat odd name (at least I'm not named after a character from a book), and I do wish my parents would just have gone with Tom or something.
It's also not actually a name in the source material. It's like watching a story about 18th century France and naming your daughter "Dauphine", or about 1st century BC Rome and naming your son "Consul".
smith, cobbler, tanner. look new names exist somehow, naming people after characters in stories is as old as names.