My Dad knew a man with the surname De Kock (which is a common surname in South Africa) but I was a little surprised to find out that his parents named him Vernon Dirk.
Reminds me of a story my mother told she used to work on GPO telephones as a switchboard operator and once had a man she gingerly pronounced as "mr shay-ite" he replied "my name is **** and I'm proud of it!"
There are a couple of Indian cricketers called Jasprit Bumrah and Arshdeep Singh. So "Bumrah caught Asrhdeep" would have been a tricky one for Jonners.
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