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Post by Verbivore on Nov 9, 2020 10:19:23 GMT
I ran into a kinda aptronymic old acquaintance today. Her surname is Cook. She runs her own small bookkeeping business that she calls Cook’s Books. Thank the gods for the apostrophe (and my friend’s sense of humour). I thought that sounded familiar: (Your post of Nov 13, 2017.) Ah, repeating myself. Must be getting old and going dotty! LOL Thanks, Dave.
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Nov 10, 2020 0:42:36 GMT
I’m not sure that this counts but I am currently reading Bill Bryson’s biography of William Shakespeare. Referring to legal processes and punishments in Elizabethan England, he says:
“When a prominent Puritan named (all too appropriately, it would seem) John Stubbs criticized [Queen Elizabeth I’s] mooted marriage to a French Catholic, the Duke of Alençon, his right hand was cut off. Holding up his bloody stump and doffing his hat to the crowd, Stubbs shouted ‘God save the Queen!’, fell over in a faint, and was carted off to prison for eighteen months.”
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Post by Verbivore on Nov 12, 2020 9:48:53 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Nov 17, 2020 21:26:42 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Nov 18, 2020 20:44:33 GMT
I found a mention of a Baroness Barran on BBC news and felt compelled to check if she were real. Apparently she is.Despite asking the WWW, I don’t know which syllable of her surname is emphasised, but if it be the first, then homophonously her name and title make an interesting pair. PS: Why do upper-class English women with fancy titles or OTT names appear to have equine teeth? Does horse riding have some effect on one's dental development? Perhaps it's nature's revenge for placing bits in horses' mouths.
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Post by Twoddle on Nov 19, 2020 10:38:04 GMT
PS: Why do upper-class English women with fancy titles or OTT names appear to have equine teeth? Does horse riding have some effect on one's dental development? Perhaps it's nature's revenge for placing bits in horses' mouths. In an attempt to widen the limited aristocratic gene-pool, some of their antecedents probably mated with their horses.
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Post by Verbivore on Nov 19, 2020 11:32:16 GMT
PS: Why do upper-class English women with fancy titles or OTT names appear to have equine teeth? Does horse riding have some effect on one's dental development? Perhaps it's nature's revenge for placing bits in horses' mouths. In an attempt to widen the limited aristocratic gene-pool, some of their antecedents probably mated with their horses. One can only feel sorry for the horses! In my home town a decade or more ago a woman was charged with public bestiality for doing it with a horse in a cemetery. Rather than the perpetrator, they put down the poor horse!
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Post by Verbivore on Dec 19, 2020 21:40:13 GMT
Not an aptronym, but a most unfortunate name/initial combination: Oz ABC News blogger Alicia Nally – A Nally.
I once worked for a total bitch of a boss whose name was Janice A Pauling – and appalling she was. Her name was very much an aptronym.
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Post by Verbivore on Jan 8, 2021 2:06:05 GMT
Here’s a longstanding aptronym bearer: South African golfer Gary Player.
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Post by Dave on Jan 14, 2021 20:42:21 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Jan 15, 2021 3:44:45 GMT
That bird has the Australian quarantine service in a flap.
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Post by Verbivore on Feb 5, 2021 21:19:35 GMT
I wonder how intentional (or not) this fellow's title be: Professor of International Security & Intelligence Studies (ISIS).
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Feb 6, 2021 16:46:29 GMT
Of course ISIS (when pronounced Isis) signified many things long before the name was adopted in the West for the militant Islamic organisation perhaps better known as ISIL. See here: www.britannica.com/story/is-it-isis-or-isil
Amongst other things, it is an alternative name for part of the river Thames, it is the name of the SIS Neutron and Muon Source at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxford, it is the name of the longest-running independent student magazine in the UK established in the nineteenth century, and she is a goddess who was venerated in ancient Egypt. A search on Google produces a host of other uses including a highway in Queensland.
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Post by Dave Miller on Feb 6, 2021 17:09:27 GMT
That's all true, LJH - but I do raise an eyebrow at the use of those initials by that particular professor, who is 'Professor of International Security & Intelligence Studies, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre' and declares his research interests to include the military operations of Iraq and Afghanistan!
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Post by Verbivore on Feb 28, 2021 8:50:44 GMT
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