Sweden allows vowels in number plates, which many countries do not, due to the possibility of forming rude words. I have always wondered whether, if I were allocated something like POS, KKK, GOD, 666, or 13, 88 for my number, I could refuse it because I didn’t want to be associated with negative connotations. The letter combinations I have seen have formed FUK, POO, WEE, DUD, POS, WOG, WOP. Even thoughSweden is not an English-speaking countries, some of the meanings are clear.
The UK bans plate numbers that could have negative connotations. I wonder if that is a manual selection, or if a computer does it?
Recently I have seen these two in Sweden. The first one was definitely a choice because they paid to have that plate. Perhaps that is their name?
I would not have liked this one on my car. I am not superstitious, but still…
I didn’t realise that we had someone vetting the numberplates. Genius! When I worked in benefits, I’d see hundreds of birth certificates each year. It never ceased to amaze me how people didn’t think through the connotations of the initials and names they gave their children. The potential for school bullying never seemed to be considered. Quite often we’d also see the legal document when someone changed their name later on in life from something daft to something very bland or traditional
I can imagine! As a teacher I have seen some horrors – I have had a Genghis Cohen, Robin Hood, Mona Lotz, and Eva Brown…
Mona Lotz sounds like a character created by Ian Fleming 😂
My Mona was quite a character. She told me once that she was scrubbing her floor and realised that she did not want a boyfriend because then she would have to scrub AND f***k. It’s about 40 years later and I can still remember that because she was literally moaning a lot about her lot in life.