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10 Oct 12 - 01:50 AM (#3417331) Subject: BS: Appropriate names From: MGM·Lion I have long collected names particularly appropriate to their owners' positions or attributes: e.g. Queen Victoria, figurehead of the main period of British expansion; Sir Walter Scott, great North British writer; Charles Birchenough, author of several histories of British education; (one of particular interest to Mudcatters) John England, the first man from whom Cecil Sharp collected an English folksong. Further examples gratefully received. ~Michael~ |
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10 Oct 12 - 03:37 AM (#3417353) Subject: RE: BS: Appropriate names From: Ebbie I don't get the premise, MichaeltheGM. Other than John England's name, what makes their names appropriate? I can see that if Victoria had been named 'Regina', say, it would have been appropriate but what does 'Victoria' mean - other than a female victor? And Sir Walter Scott- is his name appropriate because he was of northern British extraction? I haven't a clue as to Birchenough. My sis in law's surgeon's name is Dr. Schneider. And I know a very small woman whose last name is Kurtz. |
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10 Oct 12 - 03:46 AM (#3417356) Subject: RE: BS: Appropriate names From: Henry Krinkle Like child molester Dr. Louis Poetter? Or a dentist I had, Dr. Payne? (:-( ))= |
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10 Oct 12 - 04:01 AM (#3417365) Subject: RE: BS: Appropriate names From: Georgiansilver A few in this article for you! |
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10 Oct 12 - 04:14 AM (#3417373) Subject: RE: BS: Appropriate names From: GUEST,Eliza Ebbie, to birch a pupil is to cane them with a birch rod. So Birchenough means to cane the boys sufficiently. Reminds me of 'Dotheboys Hall', the school in Nicholas Nickleby. My dentist is called Mr Wigglesworth. Good if you've got a loose tooth. |
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10 Oct 12 - 04:32 AM (#3417378) Subject: RE: BS: Appropriate names From: JohnInKansas I've seen several lists of such names but I suspect that you're not particularly interested in the rather common coincidental ones usually reported in those, and at the moment I can't recall any that were particularly memorable. A vaguely similar compilation was started by some students (associates of mine) decades ago to collect the "corruptions" of textbook titles and authors names for books in common use at the school, but I don't think it ever got very far. Most of the inputs they got were from the profs who knew what the students called their stuff. Top of that list was a book on Lubrication and Friction by Hunsaker and Rightmire, universally called something else. My MS Thesis advisor (Dr. Rightmire) once commented to his class while I was there "But I'm not the obscene one," if that suggests the kind of stuff in their collection. John |
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10 Oct 12 - 04:42 AM (#3417381) Subject: RE: BS: Appropriate names From: Dave Hanson Jimmy Sa vile. Dave H |
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10 Oct 12 - 05:21 AM (#3417397) Subject: RE: BS: Appropriate names From: GUEST,BobL New Scientist magazine covered this topic at length. Their parting shot: "Let the last word go to Andrew Lover, who writes to us expressing the earnest hope that nominative determinism is a real phenomenon." |
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10 Oct 12 - 07:49 AM (#3417439) Subject: RE: BS: Appropriate names From: MGM·Lion Ebbie ~~ Victoria = female victor indeed; just as the Brits were out conquering the world!* Another which occurs to me is the Romantic Poet Laureate, Wordsworth. ~M~ *(Apart from you obstinate lot!) |
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10 Oct 12 - 10:04 AM (#3417494) Subject: RE: BS: Appropriate names From: Becca72 Best I can do is my high school Biology teacher - Mr. Blood. :-) |
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10 Oct 12 - 11:00 AM (#3417523) Subject: RE: BS: Appropriate names From: Newport Boy I posted this much earlier, but it must have gone to Mars! A firm of estate agents in Newport - Crook & Blight (later Darlow & Crook, then just Darlows). Phil |
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10 Oct 12 - 11:11 AM (#3417531) Subject: RE: BS: Appropriate names From: MGM·Lion I remember a fishmonger in Northampton where we lived during WWii with the unfortunate name of Allbone. And a notable one, though not particularly appropriate: there was once a firm of estate agents in Cambridge called Hymans & Cox. Someone must have said something, because they changed it to Jackson Cox... ~M~ |
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10 Oct 12 - 11:31 AM (#3417539) Subject: RE: BS: Appropriate names From: Pete Jennings Couple of doctors: one at Bath hospital about 12 years ago, Dr. De'Ath, the other my GP when I lived near Bedford, Dr. Janet Butler, who had a personalised number plate with her initials - JAB. Dr. Jab! |
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10 Oct 12 - 12:53 PM (#3417581) Subject: RE: BS: Appropriate names From: Q (Frank Staplin) One in reverse, Thomas Crapper, the plumber who improved on an early flush toilet. (I know, he did not invent that receptacle, nor is crap derived from his name) |
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10 Oct 12 - 01:03 PM (#3417588) Subject: RE: BS: Appropriate names From: Bert I used to know an electrician named Flicker. |
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10 Oct 12 - 02:33 PM (#3417617) Subject: RE: BS: Appropriate names From: Tiger We have Dr. Wilterdink. A urologist. |
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10 Oct 12 - 02:51 PM (#3417628) Subject: RE: BS: Appropriate names From: Rapparee My last name translates to "Keeper of the Sacred Places." In modern Dutch I'm told that it means "goalie." |