Linguistic curiosity -- names ending in -man

[Joel S. Berson]

"A last rule of thumb: When a name ends in 'man,' the bearer is
Jewish, a superhero or both."

A quotation from Larry Tye's "Superman: The High-Flying History of
America's Most Enduring Hero" (Random House, 2012), as quoted by
James Parker in The New York Times [Sunday] Book Review, July 8, 18/4.

(An insightful and witty review, by the way, which ends "Mighty,
solitary, wearing his underpants on the outside as if in an endless
anxiety dream, he flies on.")

Joel

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