The author of a study published last week, which found that we are drawn to voices that sound like our own, was Molly Babel, a professor of linguistics in the University of British Columbia. It will surely be a towering success.
My mother used to enjoy the fact her bank manager was a Mr Meaney, and everyone has heard of the old law firm in Sligo called Argue and Phibbs. Here are some other examples I've come across.
I would hesitate to buy anything from Edward Swindell, an auctioneer in Cleethorpes, nor would I expect to get value in one of Cheltenham's more expensive hotels, run by Ms Kat Rack. Also in Cheltenham (my visits there aren't wasted, you see), Mr R A Flatt runs a 'residential lettings' company.
John Bunting was one of the leading lights in the loyalist flags dispute in NI and Mr Phil Stocker (not to be confused with Mr Phil Stocking, one of the Christmas elves) is president of the National Sheep Association of GB.
No one could ever forget the wonderful Cardinal Sin of Manila, but he had a colleague, Cardinal Biffi, who once warned us, as the BBC headline had it, that the "Vegetarian Antichrist Is Walking Among Us".
During the depths of the eurozone crisis the governor of the central bank of Cyprus warned that "the banking system needs restructuring, otherwise it will go bankrupt, and it needs to be done immediately". His name? Panicos Demetriades.
One of the slaughterhouses mentioned during the horse meat scandal was managed by a Mr Boddy, but I prefer the poultry abbatoir in Brittany in a place called Pleucadeuc.
My mother used to enjoy the fact her bank manager was a Mr Meaney, and everyone has heard of the old law firm in Sligo called Argue and Phibbs. Here are some other examples I've come across.
I would hesitate to buy anything from Edward Swindell, an auctioneer in Cleethorpes, nor would I expect to get value in one of Cheltenham's more expensive hotels, run by Ms Kat Rack. Also in Cheltenham (my visits there aren't wasted, you see), Mr R A Flatt runs a 'residential lettings' company.
John Bunting was one of the leading lights in the loyalist flags dispute in NI and Mr Phil Stocker (not to be confused with Mr Phil Stocking, one of the Christmas elves) is president of the National Sheep Association of GB.
No one could ever forget the wonderful Cardinal Sin of Manila, but he had a colleague, Cardinal Biffi, who once warned us, as the BBC headline had it, that the "Vegetarian Antichrist Is Walking Among Us".
During the depths of the eurozone crisis the governor of the central bank of Cyprus warned that "the banking system needs restructuring, otherwise it will go bankrupt, and it needs to be done immediately". His name? Panicos Demetriades.
One of the slaughterhouses mentioned during the horse meat scandal was managed by a Mr Boddy, but I prefer the poultry abbatoir in Brittany in a place called Pleucadeuc.
