"Upset" & other nomenological phenomena

[Dennis R. Preston]

If that's what this is about, how about Dill L. Pickle, who worked
for Paramount Foods in Louisville, KY (in the famous old article by
Tom Pyles called 'Bible-belt onamastics,' as I recall). My favorite
Louisvillian was, however, the proctologist named Dr. Asman (from my
personal files).

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This discussion has drifted away from the true meaning of the
Shandy-Lack Theory.  Rather than names that have become ill-omened
because of shame incurred by a previous holder of the name, we should
be we should be discussing people who became baseball players because
they were named Poppup or linguists because they were named
Particple.  A few more positive examples of the Theory in action, and
it can be elevated to a Law, just as the example of Upset elevated it
from an Hypothesis to a Theory.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African
Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998.

----- Original Message -----
From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 7:43 pm
Subject: Re: "Upset" & other nomenological phenomena

>  >Biblical names are presumably fair game, but who names his son
>  "Goliath"?>Or "Judas"? Or "Onan"?
>  >
>  Actually, more seriously than Onan, it could be remarked that while
>  "Judas", the Greek version of the name, is (mostly) blocked by the
>  taboo avoidance we've been discussing, the Hebrew version Judah is
>  still alive and well.  (At least I assume these are the same
>  name--that's usually the way it works.)
>
>  L
>

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Dennis R. Preston
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic,
      Asian & African Languages
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1027
e-mail: preston at msu.edu
phone: (517) 353-9290