LL-L "Names" 2004.05.18 (09) [E]

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From: Global Moose Translations <globalmoose at t-online.de>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2004.05.18 (07) [A/E/F]

More weird names:

In Bochum, Germany, there was a well-known botany professor by the name of
"Feierabend" (meaning: "the time where we leave work and go home"). And he
had an assistant named "Urlaub" (UK "holiday", US "vacation")!!! This is a
good name for a botanist anyway, since it could also mean "ancient foliage".

Gabriele Kahn

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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
Subject: "Names" [E]

> From: Global Moose Translations <globalmoose at t-online.de>
> Subject: LL-L "Names" 2004.05.17 (02) [E]
>
> I once had a dentist in Germany who told me that some of his colleagues
had
> funny names that somehow related to their profession (like Dr. Mund -
> mouth - and Dr. Schreck, as in Ron's example). He said he had always
wished
> that HE had a name like that because he would have found it soooo cool.
His
> name was Kies, which means "gravel" in German. However, in Dutch it's the
> word for "molar", and he was overjoyed when I told him!

In our local surgery there's a Dr Blaydes and a Dr Bully, which seem
appropriate and rather unsettling, respectively.

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!

Sandy
http://scotstext.org/

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