| Never had a Noah 10:46 - Nov 17 with 6686 views | GeoffSentence |
On the first names theme, Noah was the 6th most common first name in registered in England in 2016, but we've never had a Noah play for us.
Maybe in 17 or 18 years time we will see a flood of them.
Similarly Muhammad was the 8th most popular name registered for new borns in England last year and we haven't had one of those play for us yet either. |  |
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| Never had a Noah on 10:48 - Nov 17 with 5177 views | J2BLUE |
This is the sort of post that keeps me coming back here. |  |
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| Never had a Noah on 10:49 - Nov 17 with 5169 views | GeoffSentence |
| Never had a Noah on 10:48 - Nov 17 by J2BLUE |
This is the sort of post that keeps me coming back here. |
Because of the educational value? | |
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| Never had a Noah on 10:50 - Nov 17 with 5164 views | WD19 |
| Never had a Noah on 10:48 - Nov 17 by J2BLUE |
This is the sort of post that keeps me coming back here. |
To be fair, there is the Genesis of good post within it. |  | | |
| Never had a Noah on 10:50 - Nov 17 with 5158 views | GeoffSentence |
| Never had a Noah on 10:50 - Nov 17 by WD19 |
To be fair, there is the Genesis of good post within it. |
Not just a good post, a great one. | |
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| Never had a Noah on 11:03 - Nov 17 with 5132 views | BackToRussia |
Gav says stop flooding the message board. |  |
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| Never had a Noah on 11:05 - Nov 17 with 5123 views | blue_oyster |
Oliver is the second most popular and I don't think one of those has played for us either. |  |
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| Never had a Noah on 11:10 - Nov 17 with 5103 views | WD19 |
| Never had a Noah on 11:03 - Nov 17 by BackToRussia |
Gav says stop flooding the message board. |
I don't blame him, it happens a Lot. AdminTWTD has been inundated with complaints. Any message board worth its salt should be focusing on football on the Eve of a big game. | | | |
| Never had a Noah on 11:23 - Nov 17 with 5076 views | BackToRussia |
| Never had a Noah on 11:10 - Nov 17 by WD19 |
I don't blame him, it happens a Lot. AdminTWTD has been inundated with complaints. Any message board worth its salt should be focusing on football on the Eve of a big game. |
Tough Job but someone's gotta do it. | |
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| Never had a Noah on 11:25 - Nov 17 with 5071 views | jeera |
| Never had a Noah on 11:23 - Nov 17 by BackToRussia |
Tough Job but someone's gotta do it. |
There's already a similar thread.
I don't see why these have to come in pairs. |  |
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| Never had a Noah on 11:29 - Nov 17 with 5059 views | uncle |
| Never had a Noah on 11:25 - Nov 17 by jeera |
There's already a similar thread.
I don't see why these have to come in pairs. |
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| Never had a Noah on 11:36 - Nov 17 with 5041 views | GlasgowBlue |
According to the ONS, if you take the various spelling of Muhammad (Mohammed, Mohammad) it jumps from 8th to 1st. |  |
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| Never had a Noah on 11:38 - Nov 17 with 5036 views | StokieBlue |
| Never had a Noah on 11:36 - Nov 17 by GlasgowBlue |
According to the ONS, if you take the various spelling of Muhammad (Mohammed, Mohammad) it jumps from 8th to 1st. |
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| Never had a Noah on 11:42 - Nov 17 with 5019 views | BackToRussia |
| Never had a Noah on 11:36 - Nov 17 by GlasgowBlue |
According to the ONS, if you take the various spelling of Muhammad (Mohammed, Mohammad) it jumps from 8th to 1st. |
Beautiful British name. | |
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| Never had a Noah on 12:01 - Nov 17 with 5000 views | factual_blue |
| Never had a Noah on 11:03 - Nov 17 by BackToRussia |
Gav says stop flooding the message board. |
Noah was the father of Ham.
So how old does that make Phil? |  |
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| Never had a Noah on 12:05 - Nov 17 with 4991 views | blue_oyster |
| Never had a Noah on 11:36 - Nov 17 by GlasgowBlue |
According to the ONS, if you take the various spelling of Muhammad (Mohammed, Mohammad) it jumps from 8th to 1st. |
Do the ONS state that? Although that's been true for a number of years I've never seen them state it. | |
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| Never had a Noah on 12:06 - Nov 17 with 4991 views | Guthrum |
| Never had a Noah on 11:36 - Nov 17 by GlasgowBlue |
According to the ONS, if you take the various spelling of Muhammad (Mohammed, Mohammad) it jumps from 8th to 1st. |
Altho that is largely because a reasonably-sized bloc (around 5%) of society has a marked disposition towards one particular name. Something which is not true for any other group (e.g. Jesus is not a predominant name among UK Christians). Thus, while being a fairly small constituency, Muslims are able to "outvote" the more disparate name choices of everybody else. |  |
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| Never had a Noah on 12:10 - Nov 17 with 4978 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Never had a Noah on 12:06 - Nov 17 by Guthrum |
Altho that is largely because a reasonably-sized bloc (around 5%) of society has a marked disposition towards one particular name. Something which is not true for any other group (e.g. Jesus is not a predominant name among UK Christians). Thus, while being a fairly small constituency, Muslims are able to "outvote" the more disparate name choices of everybody else. |
Why isn't Jesus used by UK Christians? It is by Christians in other countries. |  |
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| Never had a Noah on 12:11 - Nov 17 with 4971 views | blue_oyster |
| Never had a Noah on 12:10 - Nov 17 by Swansea_Blue |
Why isn't Jesus used by UK Christians? It is by Christians in other countries. |
It's against the law. | |
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| Never had a Noah on 12:16 - Nov 17 with 4948 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Never had a Noah on 12:10 - Nov 17 by Swansea_Blue |
Why isn't Jesus used by UK Christians? It is by Christians in other countries. |
They are ten a penny in Spain but in the UK it would look like you were taking the piss if you named your baby Jesus.
What I find odd with Islam is that you can name your sprogs after the Prophet but you can draw a picture of him. [Post edited 17 Nov 2017 12:17]
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| Never had a Noah on 12:20 - Nov 17 with 4937 views | noggin |
I read that as "Never had a nosh" which probably says a lot about me. |  |
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| Never had a Noah on 12:27 - Nov 17 with 4924 views | Guthrum |
| Never had a Noah on 12:10 - Nov 17 by Swansea_Blue |
Why isn't Jesus used by UK Christians? It is by Christians in other countries. |
Never been part of the tradition. Mostly saints' or monarchs' names historically, plus names passed down in families. Before that usually went on meaning (e.g. Æþelflaeđ - Alfred the Great's daughter - from Æþel "noble" and flaeđ "beauty").
Probably considered too presumptuous, blasphemous, even. Especially in the 17th and 18th centuries, from whence a lot of modern naming patterns originated. | |
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| Never had a Noah on 12:33 - Nov 17 with 4906 views | Guthrum |
| Never had a Noah on 12:16 - Nov 17 by GlasgowBlue |
They are ten a penny in Spain but in the UK it would look like you were taking the piss if you named your baby Jesus.
What I find odd with Islam is that you can name your sprogs after the Prophet but you can draw a picture of him. [Post edited 17 Nov 2017 12:17]
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The derivation of the no pictures tradition is that Mohammed was only human, thus to make images of him carries too much risk of idolisation, too close to paganism and their statues of gods. There was a similar struggle going on in the Byzantine Christian church at around the same period (iconoclasm).
Much of early islamic art was abstract, geometric and calligraphic, rather than figurative, as a result. | |
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| Never had a Noah on 12:34 - Nov 17 with 4899 views | WeWereZombies |
| Never had a Noah on 10:50 - Nov 17 by WD19 |
To be fair, there is the Genesis of good post within it. |
I'm still waiting to see if there is a trick of the tale here... |  |
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| Never had a Noah on 12:39 - Nov 17 with 4884 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Never had a Noah on 12:05 - Nov 17 by blue_oyster |
Do the ONS state that? Although that's been true for a number of years I've never seen them state it. |
No. Somebody took the data provided by the ONS and added up all variations of the name. The same with Shaun and Sean but it didn't make much difference to that name. | |
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| Never had a Noah on 12:44 - Nov 17 with 4864 views | WeWereZombies |
| Never had a Noah on 12:39 - Nov 17 by GlasgowBlue |
No. Somebody took the data provided by the ONS and added up all variations of the name. The same with Shaun and Sean but it didn't make much difference to that name. |
What about Seamus, Hamish, Shamus and James? | |
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