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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2009 20:42:49 GMT -5
I get the distinct feeling that being named Ian Anderson in Scotland is the equivalent of being named John Smith in the US. Can anybody tell me if this is true?
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Post by TM on Oct 2, 2009 20:50:32 GMT -5
I get the distinct feeling that being named Ian Anderson in Scotland is the equivalent of being named John Smith in the US. Can anybody tell me if this is true? I think there are now more Ian Anderson's.  |
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Post by bobo the monkey on Oct 3, 2009 19:58:59 GMT -5
Don't forget all of the John and Jon Andersons in England and the Jan and Jens Andersens in Holland and Scandanavia and the Ivan Androvovitches in Russia...the only more popular name and variations worldwide must be Mohammed Mohammed !
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Post by johntetrad on Oct 5, 2009 20:47:06 GMT -5
Try being called Gareth Davies in Wales! Fortunately I don't live in Wales, but even so!  Ian is the gaelic version (I think ... forgive my ye olde ignorance) for 'John' - or so my old Caledonian school friend Ian Ferguson told me. He may have been having me on. But yeah. John Smith, Gareth Davies (or Jones .... or Evans of course!), Ian ... dunno about Anderson. A more Hibernian soul than I could probably tell us what the most common surname in Scotland is. There are a fair few that crop up frequently - MacDonald, Thompson, McKenzie, Ross ... ? One of my favourite facts is that whilst Jones was for years the most common surname in Wales there's no 'J' in the Welsh alphabet. I'll get my coat. G x |
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Post by TM on Oct 6, 2009 8:52:26 GMT -5
Try being called Gareth Davies in Wales! Fortunately I don't live in Wales, but even so! Ian is the gaelic version (I think ... forgive my ye olde ignorance) for 'John' - or so my old Caledonian school friend Ian Ferguson told me. He may have been having me on. But yeah. John Smith, Gareth Davies (or Jones .... or Evans of course!), Ian ... dunno about Anderson. A more Hibernian soul than I could probably tell us what the most common surname in Scotland is. There are a fair few that crop up frequently - MacDonald, Thompson, McKenzie, Ross ... ? One of my favourite facts is that whilst Jones was for years the most common surname in Wales there's no 'J' in the Welsh alphabet. I'll get my coat. G x LOL. Don't be silly John, that's the kind of scintillating discussion we're striving for over here! ;D |
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Post by Mothfairy on Oct 6, 2009 11:12:19 GMT -5
Try being called Gareth Davies in Wales! Fortunately I don't live in Wales, but even so! Ian is the gaelic version (I think ... forgive my ye olde ignorance) for 'John' - or so my old Caledonian school friend Ian Ferguson told me. He may have been having me on. But yeah. John Smith, Gareth Davies (or Jones .... or Evans of course!), Ian ... dunno about Anderson. A more Hibernian soul than I could probably tell us what the most common surname in Scotland is. There are a fair few that crop up frequently - MacDonald, Thompson, McKenzie, Ross ... ? One of my favourite facts is that whilst Jones was for years the most common surname in Wales there's no 'J' in the Welsh alphabet. I'll get my coat. G x LOL. Don't be silly John, that's the kind of scintillating discussion we're striving for over here! ;D maybe he's cold? |
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Post by TM on Oct 6, 2009 12:13:15 GMT -5
LOL. Don't be silly John, that's the kind of scintillating discussion we're striving for over here! ;D maybe he's cold? Maybe. I usually go with "I was in the pool!" |
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