A person who has a uncommon situation the place he can scent phrases says he would by no means date a Kirsty as a result of the identify has a scent like urine. Henry Grey, 23, says he been in a position to style, scent or have a sense related to phrases for so long as he can keep in mind.
After his mother and father and academics picked up on him commenting on the tastes for his classmate's names he found he had lexical-gustatory synaesthesia in 2009. Synaesthesia is a neurological situation that ends in the becoming a member of or merging of senses that are not usually linked.
These affected can usually style or scent when listening to, talking, studying or serious about phrases. For Henry the identify Boris Johnson tastes like 'squishing a hard-shelled beetle along with his foot' and Harry Kinds is like 'hair sticking up like phone wires'.
He additionally says Donald Trump is sort of a 'deflating rubber duck'. Regardless of his situation, Henry insists that more often than not the emotions are background noise however would wrestle so far or be shut buddies with somebody with a reputation he actually disliked.
Henry, a barman, from Newcastle, Tyne and Put on, mentioned: "I've all the time related phrases and names with tastes, smells and emotions - it is all I've ever recognized. To me, Kate Middleton is vaguely like jaggedly slicing fabric with a knife in a church and I can hear it.
"Cameron Diaz is sort of a sparkly disco ball slowly rotating and Jennifer Lawrence is like sniffing the within of a shoe. One of many worst names for me is Kirsty which is the faint scent of urine.
"I am unsure I may very well be shut buddies with or date a Kirsty. It is onerous however I do choose folks primarily based on their style or scent with their identify.
"It is all the time strongest once I first hear a reputation or am launched to somebody, however I can usually tune it out in day-to-day life. However at college once I moved into halls I used to be in a flat with a Duncan, Kirsty and Elijah.
"I needed to change accomodation as a result of they're among the worst names- Ducan is sort of a chicken dipped in smoky bacon crisps, Kirsty is a uirne scent and Elijah is like liking an eyeball. I could not kind a friendship with them or dwell with them so I modified halls."
Henry had assumed everybody was in a position to style or scent phrases till his mother and father and academics pulled him up on his feedback on classmate's names.
"I'd say issues like Lucy is sort of a massive crimson lollipop after they known as her identify out within the register and everybody would have a look at me confused," he mentioned.
"More often than not I fairly like having synaesthesia and it does not get in the way in which. I am a bartender at a pub so every time I have a look at folks's ID I get a powerful sense of the style and scent.
"Generally it may very well be a picture or feeling - like Leanne is a rose leaning on a window. The identify Francessca is considered one of my favourites and is silky heat chocolate espresso."
Henry finds that he usually will get the sensation of the phrase strongly when he first meets somebody and might then block it out from then. The situation primarily impacts him with names however different phrases equivalent to 'off' has the scent of rotting and 'as a result of' which is sort of a break up wood garments peg.
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"I like the identify Alice which is sliced apples and my sister's identify," he mentioned.
"Hayley is like faint smooth music. One of many worst is Ian.
"It is like having a sticky, blocked ear, all gammy and waxy - like the feeling of earache."
Right here Henry lists among the finest and worst and names in response to what they style and scent prefer to him.
Prime feminine names
Francesca - Silky heat chocolate cappuccino
Safa - Expresso-soaked sponge cake
Alice - Sliced apples
Abby - Orange Hubba Bubba
Hayley - Faint smooth music
Prime male names
Mitchell - Stretchy tacky shell pasta
Theo - Cotton ball in mouth
Oscar - Citrus orange juice
Martin - Smarties
Bailey - Heat milk
Worst feminine names
Kirsty - Faint urine scent
Mary - A pile of unwashed pink mattress sheets faintly smelling of damp
Kate - The feeling of burning myself on ice, like falling over on an ice rink and scraping your pores and skin on dry ice
Natalie - Like damaged wood splinters in my mouth
Gertrude - Tastes like if you swallow again your personal sick
Daisy - Sickly candy butter that is been unnoticed within the solar and it is turned orange
Arabella - A protracted smelly sock
Danika - Sharp segments of prepared salted crisps lodged in my throat
Vicky - Like biting into shattered glass.
Brittany - Sensation of getting my hair caught in one thing and pulled
Worst male names
Harrison - It is like an itch on my physique that I am unable to scratch, it is in every single place and nowhere - I do not even like saying 'Harrison'
Elijah - Like licking an eyeball - makes my pores and skin crawl to say it
Rupert - A beer burp
Brad - The feeling of rope burn
Dylan - A rest room seat
Braydon - Genuinely provokes horse manure smeared on a wood wall
Teddy - Beige unwashed sofa covers
Hafsah - Looks like operating my fingers by means of an outdated individual's greasy skinny hair
Ian - A horrible identify! It is like having a sticky, blocked ear, all gammy and waxy - I suppose like the feeling of earache
Warren - Looks like heartburn
Movie star names
Boris Johnson - Is like squishing a hard-shelled beetle with a foot
Jeremy Corbyn - Looks like smooth bum-fluff hair on a younger man's chin and cheeks
Donald Trump - Is a rubber duck flattened, letting out air because it deflates.
Kate Middleton - Is vaguely like jaggedly slicing fabric with a knife in a church
Cameron Diaz - Is sort of a sparkly disco ball slowly rotating
Timothee Chalamet - Is a heat bowl of sugary Sugar Puffs
Emma Watson - Is sort of a tiny pebble dropping right into a puddle and it ripples
Matthew McConaughey - Is like choking on a very smoky cigarette
Jennifer Lawrence - Is like sniffing inside a shoe
Viola Davis - Is like pouring scintillating water from one fairly glass vase into one other
Harry Kinds - Is hair sticking up like phone wires
Philip Schofield - Actually smoky
Holly Willoughby - Being one thing like a hopping kangaroo
Kim Kardashian - Is vaguely form of like shortly ruffling handkerchiefs round in a hand
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