Does Marilyn Evergreen sound stupid to you?

[Kumquatqueen]

My wife worked with a guy named Glasscock. He had daughters.

The British surnames Cockburn and Cockshott are pronounced (and often end up being spelled) Coburn and Coshott. And -bottom at the end of names, meaning a valley, is often pronounced 'botham'. Not to mention the people called Smellie who have become Smiley or Smillie over the years - both Smellie and Onions have nearly vanished over the last 100 years. And famously, John Cleese's original surname was Cheese.

I can only assume that cock in a name wasn't considered so funny a century ago. A friend of a friend with the surname Sandicock was known to all and sundry as Grittywilly...

 

[Off_base]

My wife worked with a guy named Glasscock. He had daughters.

I went to elementary school with a boy named Adam Baum.

 

[Writer61]

I can only assume that cock in a name wasn't considered so funny a century ago. A friend of a friend with the surname Sandicock was known to all and sundry as Grittywilly...

Chambers dictionary lists 11 meanings of cock, only two of which are vulgar.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

A radiator drain is a pet cock.