Leia wrote:
I keep seeing posters for a new cafe opening near me called Restal's which reduce me to a grinning loony every time I see them.
In the name of research, you could go and enquire about Restal's background.
Una added:
I once saw a shop called Gan Electrical, which is either in >Cambridge,
or possibly Worthing.
And then there's Shah-e-Gan in Rusholme (Manchester's Curry Mile). And wasn't there a Team Gan in the Tour de France?
Re Terry Nation's thinking, isn't there a solid, helpful Thal called something very similar to Gan in the original Dalek episode? He fancied Barbara.