Woman refused Sainsbury’s Nectar card because her first name is Fanny
Älskar att heta Fanny och bo i UK ❤️❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/w7mLYALqwv — Fanny Carlsson (@FannyCarlsson) February 12, 2015 Having a name with sexual connotations may make you the unwilling target of sniggers and lame jokes, but one woman found it also prevented her from acquiring a supermarket loyalty card. Fanny Carlsson, from Sweden, found that the online registration form for Sainsbury’s Nectar card would not accept her first name. The 19-year-old, however, saw the funny side of her predicament and tweeted a picture of her ‘invalid’ name being rejected. Ms Carlsson told the Daily Record: ‘Because I already knew what “Fanny” meant before I moved to England, I have chosen to call myself Linnéa at work. ‘My parents already knew I had had some problems with my name, so they’re mainly just happy they gave me a middle name that works better. ‘It’s pretty much only when I talk to Swedes that I use my first name.’ Till er som var oroliga så fick jag tillslut...