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In message <
xn0ojwk223kzmb2000@reader.xsnews.nl> at Fri, 29 Mar 2024
17:04:26, Blueshirt <
blueshirt@indigo.news> writes
J. P. Gilliver wrote:
Just watching the credits of All Creatures Great and Small (on
20; about 1980), and I noticed the Film Editor was called
Drinkwater. As it's not a common name, I wondered if she was
related to the actress who initially played "Helen Herriott"!
(Though I think that part has changed by now to the one who
played it for most of the run.)
I dunno about that, but I always thought Drinkwater was a funny
surname for someone to have. (There was an English footballer
called Danny Drinkwater.) I know historical surnames could
relate to a person's occupation, Miller, Smith (etc.)... but
everyone in the world has to drink water!
Now you mention it, it is unusual if you try to think if it that way.
But - although the vision mixer and the actress are the only ones I've
heard of - it's not unusual; I've just tried it at FreeBMD.org.uk, and
that implies there have been 12695 Drinkwater births (I think England
and Wales) since 1837Q2.
Now I think about it, it's similar to Beveridge - again, I think that
was a name I used to see in the credits (Angela I think), and of course
there's a kind of aerial configuration of that name.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
just because you are offended - doesn't mean you are right
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