"Upset" & other nomenological phenomena

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Nov 20 00:01:51 UTC 2002


At 1:28 PM -0500 11/19/02, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>Biblical names are presumably fair game, but who names his son "Goliath"?
>Or "Judas"? Or "Onan"?
>
Are you forgetting Dorothy Parker's eponymous parrot?  OK, it wasn't
her son, but it was her parrot.

L



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