there's so many joneses in welsh regiments that they are

known by the last three digits of their army number; jones 428, jones 339, jones 102 etc eventually they just drop the jones bit and get called 428 etc

evanses as well

there's lovely isn't it?

Posted By: Tombs on June 20th 2018 at 18:11:42

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Wrath Helen required: how is the name Geraint pronounced? (n/m) (General Chat) - Adster, Jun 20, 17:45:03
- "Taff" (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Jun 20, 18:00:15
  - haha (n/m) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 20, 18:01:48
    - there's so many joneses in welsh regiments that they are (General Chat) - Tombs, Jun 20, 18:11:42
      - What about Williams? Lot's of them too i'd imagine? (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jun 20, 18:15:14
        
        ditto (General Chat) - Tombs, Jun 20, 18:16:57
        
        Ha ha! (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jun 20, 18:17:25
        
        Oddly, lots of Italian names in Wales. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jun 20, 18:17:54
        
        Lots of italian immigrants in 19th century, mainly to the docks and the mines (General Chat) - CWC, Jun 20, 19:05:48
        
        Yup, opened a lot of cafes too, especially Ice Cream places. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jun 20, 19:06:51
        
        Taffi (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Jun 20, 18:21:24
        
        Double ha ha Mr Tombs! On form today sir! (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jun 20, 18:28:00
- Commentators and players always said (phoneticallly) Garant. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jun 20, 17:53:49
  - Geriant Jones. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jun 20, 17:54:31
    - lols.... (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jun 20, 17:56:11
      - blimey, that was almost exactly the same as mine (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 20, 18:15:54
- Thanks all (n/m) (General Chat) - Adster, Jun 20, 17:53:13
- 1st syllable Ger, rhymes with ‘ter’ from ‘terrible’ (G hard, as in ‘God’) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 20, 17:50:54
- We know some one with that name and pronounce it Griant, as (General Chat) - CB41, Jun 20, 17:49:21
- *help obvs (n/m) (General Chat) - Adster, Jun 20, 17:45:23
  - ‘Ge’ like ‘Get’ without the ‘t’, ‘raint’ like ‘pint’. (n/m) (General Chat) - tim berry, Jun 20, 17:49:11
    - ^^^ timberry knows ^^^ (n/m) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 20, 17:52:27

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