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Are thoes traditional English names?

posted 14 years ago by Moviejunkee
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Sorry if this is a dumb question but are the character's names traditional English names or are they nick names? I'm not from the UK so I have no clue, but I just find it odd that parents would name their kid Milky, Combo, Smell, Lol, Pukey, etc. I only ask since some of the other people have fairly normal names like Woody, Kelly, Harvey, Shaun, etc.

[–] ronmexicoirl 14 years ago

Re. Milky, Combo, Smell, Lol, Pukey, etc. They're just nicknames.

Woody wouldn't be a normal name in the UK though and infact is actually the character's nickname too.

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a woman?

[–] BethH24 13 years ago

Well Woody is a nickname for the character's surname, which is Woodford, and some people here in the UK do have nicknames made out of their surnames. Some people do have unusual nicknames too.