cherishablematerial: you're laughing. charles dickens had a son named plorn and you're laughing corvidayyy: HE HAD A SON NAMED WHAT cherishablematerial: (in wiggly writing): Plorn. corvidayyy: NICK I LOOKED IT UP AND SAW NOTHING OF THE SORT IS THIS A PRANK cherishablematerial: technically his name was edward but everyone called him plorn corvidayyy: Edward “Plorn” Dickens. my god. Screeenshot from wikipedia: Nicknamed "Plorn", Dickens cherishablematerial: corvidayy: oh??? cherishablematerial: Screenshot from article: “The Plornish Maroon is in a brilliant state, beating all former babies into what they call in America (I don’t know why) sky-blue fits,” Dickens wrote of his youngest son, Edward, whose original nickname, “Mr. Plornishmaroontigoonter,” Dickens soon abbreviated to “The Noble Plorn” and eventually just Plorn, the name by which Edward was known for the rest of his plain and forlorn life. corvidayyy: imagine getting stuck with the nickname Plorn
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