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From:Ethnology (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPersonal names among the Lauans of Fiji often include narrative comments about the person named for. Sometimes the name is a simple replication of the name of an elder relative, but often the name includes a relative's...
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From:Evelyn Waugh Studies (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOn 15 April 2013, the Telegraph published a "Good grammar test." One question involves the gender of someone named Evelyn....
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 96, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedA blinding light filled the sanctuary as the two vials, once empty, filled with chrism and oil of the catechumens. Candles dimmed in the wake of the sharp white light. The onlookers watched the vials with disbelief, but...
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From:Women and Language (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIs it Radical? Women's Right to Keep Their Own Surnames After Marriage, Masumi Arichi. Women Studies International Forum, 22(4), 1999, pp. 411-415. In Japan, as elsewhere, socio-economic changes have impacted women's...
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From:Chinese America: History and PerspectivesPeer-Reviewedbaixushan (baak-soet-saam) [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] baiyi (baak- yee) [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] Baiyi Hang (Baak Yee Hong) [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] Baiyun [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 30, Issue 3)THE SOURCE: "What's in a Surname? The Effects of Surname Initials on Academic Success" by Liran Einav and Leeat Yariv, in Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2006. ECONOMICS IS THE QUEEN OF the social sciences,...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 23, Issue 4)The difference between British and American etiquette is analyzed. Topics include use of formal address in salutations and letter writing, shaking hands to greet party guests, and the American myth of youth. In which...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 75, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedKorzybski tells us that "false definitions lead to consequences not merely wasteful but positively harmful.? Consider the humble birth certificate, an object that acts as the foundation for all official documentation in...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 41, Issue 1)Nigel Richards of New Zealand won the 9th World Scrabble Championship in Mumbai, India, becoming the ninth different World Champion since the event began in 1991. The fact that no-one has won twice seems to suggest an...
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From:Boulevard (Issue 107-108)I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces which guard my country and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense. --US Code of Conduct, Article I (1987) I grabbed my camo stick to rub dry...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 35, Issue 3)In choosing baby names, many soon-to-be parents take inspiration from pop culture. According to the Social Security Administration, the two names that gained the most popularity last year were Bentley (for boys) and...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 42, Issue 4)I've applied the HeLa tetragram process from the preceding article to all the contributors to Word Ways in the past ten years in order to curry favour. So read on--you may find yourself in here! Checking each author...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThere is another me who wrote plays I have neither seen nor read. Once I received a rejection meant for him; the works in question, if I recall, were Frantic! and City Banker. Of course nobody likes to be confused with...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 35, Issue 2)I began naming my children when I was four. The habit launched itself via the succession of dolls that were quickly discarded, and the numerous stuffed animals exhausted from affection. There were also objects like the...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 50, Issue 2)Many people's names can be transposed either (A) into other names or (B) into non-name words. A. NAMES INTO OTHER NAMES COMPATIBLE COUPLES ALAN and LANA COLIN and NICOL EDGAR and GERDA IAN and INA CARLO and...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 48, Issue 4)When I started work at a bank after leaving school, one of the other tellers had the surname CARRINGTON and the manager was Mr WARRINGTON. A few years later I left the bank and the manager of my new job was named...
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From:Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal (Vol. 42)MARGARET ANNE DOODY'S Jane Austens Names: Riddles, Persons, Places (2015) has been widely received as a major contribution to Austen scholarship, full of original research and stimulating suggestions. In this critical...
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From:Women and Language (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: The traditional onomastic practices among the Tswana reflect and reinforce unbalanced ideological conceptions of female and male, and of their roles in society. This study illustrates through an examination of...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 47, Issue 2)People have long been fascinated with unusually long words, and unusually long names in particular. Most have at least heard of the Welsh village Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, even if they...
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From:Women and Language (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Instability of Androgyous Names: the symbolic Maintenance of Gender Boundaries, Stanley Lieberson, Susan Dumais & Shyon Baumann. American Journal of Sociology, 105(5), 2000, pp. 1249-1288. By definition,...