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Sunday, May 30, 2004

Exploring Place Names. Martyn Whittock explains how place names can unlock all sorts of information about the history of a place and its people, and how modern attempts to decipher them can go wrong.


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Tuesday, May 18, 2004

The Game of the Name. (via Reflections in d minor) “New parents rattle off diminutives and acronyms as if reciting scales. ‘I wanted a truly awesome, convertible name that could collapse into a normal name. Something like Charles Henry Underhill Grisham Sernovitz, because CHUGS would be a great college nickname,’ says Andy Sernovitz, 33, whose son Charles Darwin Grisham Sernovitz was born last November.” 1. CHUGS is not a normal name. 2. If names are fate, what assholic parent gives the gift of Rush & liver failure?


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Saturday, May 01, 2004

Oh, and Gulliver says hello. So why do people (or men in particular) give names to their naughty bits?


[posted by S. Y. Affolee on 12:45 PM | link]









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