Aptonyms
Aptonym: What is an Aptonym?
According to linguist Frank Nuessel (see The Study of Names), an aptonym is the term used for "people whose names and occupations or situations (e.g., workplace) have a close correspondence." The name "aptonym" is a compound word which consists of the adjective "apt" (from Latin via Middle English) meaning "exactly suitable, or appropriate". The second part of this word comes from the Greek "onuma" ('name').
Ocean stocks in peril if trends persist: study
Updated Thu. Nov. 2 2006 4:17 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
The world's oceans will be virtually barren of species for human consumption by 2050 if current trends in habitat destruction and overfishing persist, researchers warned Thursday.
Said lead researcher:
"I distinctly remember the moment I did that analysis," lead author Boris Worm of Dalhousie University told CTV Newsnet.
These just crack me up. I see them from time to time in the news. Now that I've hooked you, you'll be seeing them too. Now you have a place to land them.
Dr. Bonebreak, my sister's orthodontist.
Wang Wei, the chinese pilot that hit our plane by Hainan.
Big V, Did you stop taking your meds?
Best one ever used to be in the KC phonebook:
Dr. Charles Footlich...Podiatrist. For real.
My old dentist was Dr. Paine.
My orthopedic surgeon I visited is named Dr. Malarkey. He is a wonderful doctor.
Another doc in town is named Dr. Goodenough. It's pronounced good-en-oh
I used to work with a State Agency that interfaced with the Medical profession. So, we saw lots of doctor's names.
My favorite - Dr. Nipple. Who specialized in, (what else) breast surgery.
I used to work with a State Agency that interfaced with the Medical profession. So, we saw lots of doctor's names.
My favorite - Dr. Nipple. Who specialized in, (what else) breast surgery.
You're pulling my leg!
Signed,
Dr. Femur
I didn't see that one coming.
signed,
Claire Voyant
I get it spexx! "see"-- you're an eye guy...heheheee
The principal of my High School should have been a gynocologist.
His name was Seymor Hyman. I kid you not!
I'll bet his nickname in college was "Buster".
Two of my favorite teachers in High School were Mr. Stern and Mrs. Payne.
And in Junior High School, my Latin teacher was Mr. Cave. Cave means "beware" in Latin.
And an apatonym would be a deceptive name.
The Dr. that delivered me was Dr. Butcher.
In high school I had not one, but two teachers with the last name Fear.
One didn't spell it that way, but they were pronounced identically. A Mr. and a Ms.
As I was typing this, I just remembered that Mr. Fear used to wear a button everyday that said "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
Two of my absolute best, I can't actually post.
There's this guy, see, and while he's actually a McHeronUser, his last name is kinda like McCrazyGuy, so we always just refer to him as "The McCrazyGuy."
The other fellow has a last name that is very similar to that of his drug of choice ...
I always thought that William Wordsworth was an apt name for a poet.
My cousin married a man whose surname was Hyman. She became Anita Hyman. Funny enough in itself when you say it out loud, but then she went and applied for job with a company called Clive Peters whose company jingle was, 'Clive Peters, it's so easy'.
Dunno if it's an aptonym but I've once read that in Canada there's a doctor couple with both have same surname: Doctor. So the lady is always introduced as Dr.Doctor-Doctor.
And btw, I know a guy called Buster Hymen.
I know a Richard Bever... we do call him Dicky Beaver. (he is in HS)
I heard of a guy who's last name is Benson and his parents named him Benson and he joined the navy so he was ensign Benson Benson. I was told this was true.
[Australian] Prime Minister John Howard, Treasurer Peter Costello and Health Minister Tony Abbott have been dictating to...
Not especially an aptonym, as I know nothing about them, except their comic namesakes, but it gave me a chuckle... :)
There's a hockey player in Montreal with last name Bonk.
I went to high school with a boy named Peter Raper. Why do people stick a name like that on an innocent child? Even in North Carolina, which has more than its share of strange names? :(
My old hairdresser's name was Debbie Blows, I wish she would get married, she is a good hairdresser, but I had to stop going there.....the possibilities were endless.
Why do people stick a name like that on an innocent child?
Ask the boy named Sue.
But then such names don't challenge the named as much as names challenge others. They are really a challenge for you. Do you take an emotional or 'thereby hateful' impression? Or do you take the person as a person? IOW people with such unusual names are how you discover whether you either are a racist (someone who makes decisions based upon first impressions), or are a superior person. Yes, the name is amusing. But if it anything more than amusing, then you met the criteria also called racist - judging others only based upon emotional (first) impression.
'Sue' simply demonstrates how many somehow know only because they feel. We call that racism. We also have other names for what is really hate.
I once worked with a guy whose surname was 'Didlick'
..... his unthinking parents christened him 'Richard'.....
You have no idea how frustrating it is to have a really, really good one and not be able to tell it.
The closest that I can get to rendering it would be "Peace Cheerless"
Yeah, the person was depressed.
My sis knew a Brilliance Royale (who was neither).
From the news this week, a story on All Things Considered, had a interview with
a spacesuit engineer at NASA named Joe Kosmo. Seriously. I love it!
Joe Kosmo's biography
The story from NPR.
Perhaps no person has borne longer witness to the arc of NASA as an institution than spacesuit engineer Joe Kosmo. For the past 48 years, Kosmo has been at the heart of the organization, designing spacesuits for Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and the space shuttle astronauts.
The Golden Era
"Well, there were a lot of fun days," Kosmo says. "We were a lot younger, and times were different. Maybe the level of bureaucracy wasn't so high."
Kosmo says that it is instructive to remember that almost all of the first astronauts were test pilots and fighter jocks of the most swaggering sort. They infused the NASA culture with a confidence about taking chances; the prospect that their next flight could be their last was already familiar.
In STL,
Dr. Richard Head is a neurologist.
But my brother-in-law says he is a nice enough guy.
Dazza used to work with a Professor Blood who was an anatomy lecturer.
I feel sorry for Batman villains. Doomed from the start by their parent's naming choices.
I once saw a psychiatrist named Dr. Nutt. True.
Picture, meet 1,000 Words...
Dr Needle...my GP for quite a while, but so popular it became impossible to get an appointment with her.
I used to have a doctor named Allcock. Not sure if he lived up to his name...
Did he have a cranial scar from his forehead back?
Or was he a urologist?
Our Games (PE) teacher at school was called Mr Leggit.
The gyno who delivered my first baby was Dr. Harsh. Actually she was quite a nice lady.
The gyno who delivered ME was Dr. Pfister. I didn't realize how funny that was until very recently when the topic came up and my dear husband started laughing about it. Dirty minded bastard.
My first Latin teacher was Mr. Cave. Cave means "beware" in Latin.
My next Latin teacher was Mrs. Payne.
My Computer Science teacher was Mr. Stern.
D'oh! Thread zombie got me!
I had my medication review with Bucks & Oxon Mental Health Department - with Dr Brain.
In fact Mum queried it (I wrote it on the calendar). She thought I couldn't spell psychiatrist. [COLOR="White"]Hello?! Trick cyclist, whatever.[/COLOR]
My German teacher in High School was named dryer - Every morning the class had to recite "guten Morgen Herr-Drier"
The dietary consultant in Good Housekeeping magazine (UK edition) is currently Anita Bean.
I used to have Good Housekeeping on subscription - great magazine!
My current home-cooked staples are all variations of their recipes.
I used to have Good Housekeeping on subscription - great magazine!
My current home-cooked staples are all variations of their recipes.
Oh good! When I saw you'd posted I feared you were going to out me as a middle-class, middle-aged housewife type thingie :o.
Oh good! When I saw you'd posted I feared you were going to out me as a middle-class, middle-aged housewife type thingie :o.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Oh good! When I saw you'd posted I feared you were going to out me as a middle-class, middle-aged housewife type thingie :o.
If I had, it would have been through the ignorance of not reading the magazine, and I hope you were prepared to smack me for it.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
And no, there's not. But it's not actually true for Limey...
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
If I had, it would have been through the ignorance of not reading the magazine, and I hope you were prepared to smack me for it.
And no, there's not. But it's not actually true for Limey...
You two can come to dinner anytime!
You two can come to dinner anytime!
I don't have any current plans to be out your way, but I do appreciate the offer. And you never know. I have been to Edinburgh and enjoyed it a lot.
Edinburgh sounds a bit of a trip for Limey, what with the ferry passage and all. Is he better situated for a run to Glasgow?
Embra is only an hour further away than Glasgae ...
Figgered Glasgow meant one fewer stop from... where? Kyles of Bute? Jura?
(That's the only purely Scottish sea-road I've ever actually seen, the view from inside a submarine being what it is. Viewing a good swatch of The Minch from the weather decks of the USS Iowa would mix the Irish with the Scottish, and I think that time our track ran nearer to Ireland's coast anyway. It was well within sight.)
Aptonyms strike again!
You may well have heard that during our most recent election here in Washington, marriage equality was extended to all people, not just opposite sex couples. It's a big deal, big enough that folks were lining up the night before the first day it became legal to marry. City Hall was open at midnight, and due to the overwhelming response they opened up the Courthouse too.
The first ones to be married at 12:01 am were Sarah and Emily Cofer at the King County Courthouse.
The judge who performed the ceremony?
Judge Mary Yu.
First wedding of same-sex couple tonight at 12:01 a.m. in the King County Courthouse
Sarah and Emily Cofer will be the first same-sex couple to legally marry at the King County Courthouse. King County Superior Court Judge Mary Yu will perform the ceremony tonight at 12:01 a.m. at the Courthouse located at 516 Third Ave. in Seattle.
:lol2:
I saw some really great photos from that. Dan Savage and his long-time partner got married during the first wave.
Former group chief executive of Barclays Plc, during the Libor scandal: Bob Diamond
There's also good old Conrad Black's official title as a peer:
The Lord Black of Crossharbour (aso The Baron Black of Crossharbour)
A convicted fraudster.