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Meet the man with a rare condition who can taste, smell and feel words - who reveals he'd never date a Kirsty because the name smells of urine.

Henry Gray, 23, has always been able to taste, smell or have a feeling associated with words for as long as he can remember.

He discovered he had lexical-gustatory synaesthesia in 2009 - after his parents and teachers picked up on him commenting on the tastes for his classmate's names.

Synaesthesia is a neurological condition that results in the joining or merging of senses that aren't normally connected - those affected can often taste or smell when hearing, speaking, reading or thinking about words.

Here Henry lists some of the best and worst and names according to what they taste and smell like to him.

Top female names
Francesca - Silky warm chocolate cappuccino
Safa - Expresso-soaked sponge cake
Alice - Sliced apples
Abby - Orange Hubba Bubba
Hayley - Faint soft music

Top male names
Mitchell - Stretchy cheesy shell pasta
Theo - Cotton ball in mouth
Oscar - Citrus orange juice
Martin - Smarties
Bailey - Warm milk

Worst female names
Kirsty - Faint urine smell
Mary - A pile of unwashed pink bed sheets faintly smelling of damp
Kate - The sensation of burning myself on ice, like falling over on an ice rink and scraping your skin on dry ice
Natalie - Like broken wooden splinters in my mouth
Gertrude - Tastes like when you swallow back your own sick
Daisy - Sickly sweet butter that’s been left out in the sun and it’s turned orange
Arabella - A long smelly sock
Danika - Sharp segments of ready salted crisps lodged in my throat
Vicky - Like biting into shattered glass.
Brittany - Sensation of having my hair caught in something and pulled

Worst male names
Harrison - It’s like an itch on my body that I can’t scratch, it’s everywhere and nowhere - I don’t even like saying ‘Harrison’
Elijah - Like licking an eyeball - makes my skin crawl to say it
Rupert - A beer burp
Brad - The sensation of rope burn
Dylan - A toilet seat
Braydon - Genuinely provokes horse manure smeared on a wooden wall
Teddy - Beige unwashed settee covers
Hafsah - Feels like running my fingers through an old person's greasy thin hair
Ian - A horrible name! It’s like having a sticky, blocked ear, all gammy and waxy - I guess like the sensation of earache
Warren - Feels like heartburn

Celebrity names
Boris Johnson - Is like squishing a hard-shelled beetle with a foot
Jeremy Corbyn - Feels like soft bum-fluff hair on a young man’s chin and cheeks
Donald Trump - Is a rubber duck flattened, letting out air as it deflates.
Kate Middleton - Is vaguely like jaggedly cutting cloth with a knife in a church
Cameron Diaz - Is like a sparkly disco ball slowly rotating
Timothee Chalamet - Is a warm bowl of sugary Sugar Puffs
Emma Watson - Is like a tiny pebble dropping into a puddle and it ripples
Matthew McConaughey - Is like choking on a really smoky cigarette
Jennifer Lawrence - Is like sniffing inside of a shoe
Viola Davis - Is like pouring scintillating water from one pretty glass vase into another
Harry Styles - Is hair sticking up like telephone wires
Philip Schofield - Really smoky
Holly Willoughby - Being something like a hopping kangaroo
Kim Kardashian - Is vaguely kind of like quickly ruffling handkerchiefs around in a handSubscribe to our channel to be the first to see our viral and exclusive videos.

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