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Post by Verbivore on Apr 29, 2015 22:05:45 GMT
Hertz and Holler Dentistry
The Payne and Sharp Infirmary
Doctor Dick Ball, sex-change surgeon
A dentist in Detroit named Dr Schreck (fear in German)
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 4, 2015 0:17:12 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 11, 2015 23:35:20 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 14, 2015 10:40:27 GMT
I’ve been watching Secrets Of The Manor House – Highclere Castle (a.k.a. “Downton Abbey”), where the gardeners were for generations the Digweed family.
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 24, 2015 8:23:06 GMT
A speechwriter by the name of Holdforth. HERE
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Post by Verbivore on Jul 10, 2015 3:18:35 GMT
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Post by Alan Palmer on Jul 10, 2015 10:15:43 GMT
The name of England batsman Joe Root must give lots of Aussies amusement during the Ashes cricket series. Luckily any attempted sledging based on his name would fail as it doesn't translate into British English.
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Post by Verbivore on Sept 27, 2015 12:15:43 GMT
A Scottish tourist, Chris Picken, picking fruit on an Aussie farm. (Reported on ABC News Online, 27/09/15)
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Oct 4, 2015 8:14:08 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 4, 2015 9:29:54 GMT
Thanks for the link, LJH. Interesting reading on one my pet topics. I do identify with the remark, from the article: " [...] you'll still feel from time to time the uncanny sensation that, so far as you're concerned, it's [one's name] only an arbitrary series of phonemes". Many times I've repeatedly read / sounded my name -- Gordon Balfour Haynes -- only to come to that same conclusion. After all what, apart from a succession of random phonemes, does my name mean? Nothing much; merely an identifier.
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 8, 2015 13:12:39 GMT
A moment ago I was writing the name of my neighbour in my travel diary when it occurred to me that he wears an aptronym.
He is an engineer and a restorer of old cars / machines.
His name: Allan Keys.
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Post by Tone on Oct 8, 2015 20:09:19 GMT
Pity it's not "Allen" then. That would have been even better.
Tone
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Post by Verbivore on Nov 13, 2015 21:53:15 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Nov 16, 2015 9:44:02 GMT
A WILD bunch indeed!WILD: A most unfortunate aptronym! And an entire litter of them! Brodie, Kevin, Andrew, Adam, Rowan … all true to their Wild family moniker, it would appear. Must be wild at that end of the gene pool! (I could write more, about the usefulness of a veterinarian to society, but …)
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Post by Verbivore on Nov 26, 2015 20:26:28 GMT
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