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An African guy moves to Glasgow. Settles in well, gets on with the locals, but has one problem: folk keep getting his name wrong - it has more spellings than he can keep up with.
He decides to change it to something Scottish that the locals will get right.
He goes into a solicitor to make the Statutory Declaration, but can't decide what name to use. All the names he can think of seem a bit *too* Scottish. So he asks the solicitor for advice. "How about 'Ritchie'? It was my mother's name before she married, it's Scottish and most people should be able to spell it", says the solicitor.
Having duly sworn the Declaration he heads off happy.
A week later, he's back at the solicitor. "It's just not working. Whenever I tell people my name, they laugh at me. I'm going to need to change it again".
"My mother never got laughed at for being called Ritchie. What's your first name?"
"Maboza".
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