So Monk is presumably so named because his ancestor was a monk. Usually job surnames originated thus. Taylor, Cooper, Smith, Whore, etc. Couldn't have been a very good monk if he has descendants.
... interesting ... where would Donald Trump's surname have originated from then? ... or HIAG Knobjockey?
Shame to see Monk go, as he seemed like a nice bloke, but he does seem to have lost the dressing room. Swansea have some very decent players and their performances have not been up to par recently. I expect he'll get another chance soon, though probably not in the Premier League.
... I think he was a little unfortunate to come up against the best team in the Prem last weekend when he really needed a result
... unfortnately yes ... it's also a shame that Gomis and Ayew were not as lethal in front of goal for them as Harry 'Hurra' Kane was ... arguably his best finish of the entire season to date
His ancestry is Italian I'm led to believe - his great-great-grandfather, Giuseppi Dyspepsia arrived in America from the small Italian town of Flatulenza sometime in the late 1840s ... and settled in Chicago ... the family then changed it's name so as not to be associated with bad smells ...
As a surname it was almost always a nickname for somebody who looked like a monk, or for one who led a solitary life given to good works, or to an actor, one who played the part of a monk in the pageants or the travelling theatres of the Middle Ages. That it was a nickname is evidence by the fact that monks were supposed to be celibate, and precluded by ecclesiastical law from marriage Read more: http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Monk#ixzz3trF54vXC
