Thread:Scrooge200/@comment-14250-20191105215103/@comment-14250-20191110172346

> Patrick is much more than a chocolate seller. He's Mr. Ratburn's husband! That is what's important about him.

Respectfully I disagree with this. It's somewhat demeaning to primarily identify someone primarily as someone else's spouse. If I didn't know Nigel's surname and there were other Nigels to tell him apart from, I would ID him as Nigel (teacher) not Nigel (Patrick's husband).

This is also a more neutral name, because when he first appears, Patrick isn't Nigel's husband, he's his fiance. Whereas for his entire appearance, he has ALWAYS been a chocolate salesperson, which appears to be an honored family business going back DECADES so I don't think we should be depreciating his perfectly respectable occupation by implying that becoming someone's spouse is somehow more notable than that.

If we didn't know Paige Turner's surname and she had married Nigel, and there was some other Paige to disambiguate her from, I think we would without question call her Paige (librarian) not Paige (Nigel's wife) for example.

Patrick (Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone) would be fine for now, if he has only appeared in that episode, but in all likelihood I think we'll eventually see him in future episodes so that parenthesis would be somewhat outdated.

The (aardvark) could work... except do we have a source proving that? I 100% agree that he looks like the same species as the Read family, but I have to recognize this is just our fan speculation and it might work better if we had a 3rd party (staff or a newspaper) referring to him as an aarvark to confirm our opinions before declaring them.