Guys named "Buzz"

[Jonathan Lighter]

>From 1942: [caption of photo of soldier dancing with colleen] <<Pvt.
Frank
Farnetti ... teaches jitterbugging to colleen "Buzz" Johnston in North
Ireland.>>

  Now _there's_ an onomastic etymology worth tracing.  Probably unrelated to the prophesied female "Buzzes" of the future, though.

  JL


"Douglas G. Wilson" <douglas at NB.NET> wrote:
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Newspaperarchive search turns up lots of mentions of persons named "Buzz":
one can find pre-WWII <>, <>, <>,
etc. I find <<"Buzz" Jones>> from 1892.

I don't find any pre-comic "Buzz Sawyer" ... although it seems natural to
me, maybe it doesn't/didn't to most people.

>From 1942: [caption of photo of soldier dancing with colleen] <
Farnetti ... teaches jitterbugging to colleen "Buzz" Johnston in North
Ireland.>>

-- Doug Wilson


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