Talk:Peter Badcoe/Archives/2021/January

Reason for name change?
Changing one's name, especially well into one's career and while married, is a pretty momentous decision. Yet this article says nothing about why its subject did it. Was he embarrassed by his family? Were they embarrassed by him?

Also, the body text says he made the change in 1961, while the intro says 1962 (each actually says it was "the same year" as another event, which is the one given the date). Which is correct? --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 21:55, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
 * According to this he used Badcock "before 1961". I can't access the cited sources, but he most likely changed it in 1961. (CC) Tb hotch ™ 22:11, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Having served in the Australian Army (albeit a couple of decades later), I can imagine that the puns/mispronunciations of his name by his fellow officers and even soldiers WRT cock=penis were merciless. None of the sources say why he did it. I expect that the family pronounced it Badcoe anyway, despite the spelling, and he was probably being pragmatic by changing the spelling to a phonetic one to avoid mispronunciations. I’ll check the sources about exactly when the name change occurred and clarify in the article. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 22:48, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for raising this. I've clarified in the article, it was definitely 1961. As for why, I can find no reliable source that says. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 01:12, 12 January 2021 (UTC)