One of these things is not like the others:

[girlyswot]

Track


Bristol


Willow


Piper


Elvendork


Trig


Sarah Palin's children's names are in fact, rhyming slang:

Track (and field): well-heeled, rich
Bristol (City): titty, tits
(Weeping) Willow: pillow
(Pied) Piper: hyper
Trig(onometry): geometry

Okay, I made two of those up. But still, it would probably be foolish for any of these children to emigrate to the UK.

Comments

[ex-lizzzar998.livejournal.com]

Calling someone Bristol would definitely be weird in the UK, but it's different in the US. I remember an American girl called Devon. Still, part of me can't help wonder if her name did cause some subtle trauma.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Devon Malcolm was a British athlete some years ago. Placenames as first names aren't common in the UK, but do exist. The problem is more to do with the slang connotations of that particular placename.

[ex-lizzzar998.livejournal.com]

Fair enough, although Wikipedia says he was actually born in Jamaica, and Bristol's parents are presumably not familiar with British slang, as apparently her mother only got a passport last year.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

A bit late to this, but I recall a Radio 4 programme about WWII that incidentally noted that Devon was a (relatively) popular name among African-Americans (and particularly military familes) dated back to soldiers (who were of course in racially segregated units) being posted there. And of course once people hear it they think "Oh, that's a nice name" (which I can understand about Devon as it is reasonably euphonious, if it doesn't make you think of cider).