LL-L "Names" 2004.05.19 (05) [D/E]

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From: Stella en Henno <stellahenno at hetnet.nl>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2004.05.18 (09) [E]

> From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
> Subject: "Names" [E]
>
> In our local surgery there's a Dr Blaydes and a Dr Bully, which seem
> appropriate and rather unsettling, respectively.
>
[snip]
> I've seen quite a few of these things, but the only other ones which come
to
> mind are a barber in Newport, South Wales called "Shearman" and a garage
in
> Usk, South Wales, owned by a mechanic called "Wrench".
>
> I've seen a dentist's plaque somewhere with "Mr ... Payne" on it.
>
> New Scientist, a popular science magazine in the UK, collected hundreds of
> examples of scientific documents written by scientists with names that
were
> highly appropriate or inappropriate to the subject matter. I don't know if
> these would be online, but I found them very entertaining. They also
coined
> a term for this phenomenon - if I could just remember it I could search
for
> it on the Web!

In the Dutch newspaper Het Parool there is an irregular column on this exact
subject.
It is aptly called "nomen est omen" (Latin: the name is an omen (sign of
upcoming fate)

> Sandy
> http://scotstext.org/

Henno Brandsma

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