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Thu 31 Aug, 2006 10:04 pm
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COCKS are slowly becoming extinct in Britain, a survey of out-of-favour surnames reveals.
The number of people named Cock has plunged 75 per cent in 125 years.
There are also fewer Handcocks and Glasscocks. And Willy, once big in Taunton, Somerset, has flopped too.
Hickinbottom and Shufflebottom have been given the bum's rush.
Blackburn has fewer Nutters ?- and there aren't so many Daft folk in Nottingham.
Glasgow's Smellie army has shrunk too, according to the research by University College London.
Probably because the Glasscock family (& the rest) got sick of the taunts, the jokes, folk sniggering when they introduced themselves .... Generations of them! Much easier being plain old Mr & Mrs Glass. But not half as colourful!
Oh....me and my dirty mind....
But then, there is some truth in this story I guess
I have checked my cock, and although slightly withered, it has not yet gone into a state of extinction.
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