Diversions
NOTES & QUERIES
Game of the name won’t mend your trousers
Do people’s names affect their personality?
I’m not sure, but in college in Oregon I lived in a house with five Sarahs. Confusing when people phoned: “Which Sarah? ” “The Sarah in my Spanish class. ” Three of us took Spanish. But fun! Twice in my life I’ve had dear friends named Sarah and the shared name made us even closer.
Sarah Klenbort Toowong, Queensland, Australia
• Well, I asked Taylor Swift to alter a pair of trousers for me three weeks ago and she still hasn’t done it, so no.
Decdub via theguardian.com
• My name is Brian and I am a boring, middle-class, middle-aged
