Why a slip of the hand could cause havoc for us all – especially if you’re called Jacqueline

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

We’ve all been there: you’ve been on hold to a call centre for half an hour and you finally get though to a ‘call operator’ only to spend the next ten minutes saying: “Alice. Yes, Alice with an ‘a’. No, not ‘Alex’, ‘Alice’. A-L-I-C-E. As in the Wonderland character.” You ...

Why are so many wanna-be PRs called Kirsty?

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Sorting through stacks of CVs from graduates this morning, I experienced a Groundhog Day moment. It was the spooky familiarity of the names at the top of the CVs that did it. You see, there was an astonishingly high preponderance of Kirstys there. Not to mention a disproportionate number of ...