An article about pain mitigation in SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN quotes the chief of pain and palliative care at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. It's none other than Dr. Payne!
There is a sports reporter on VT around here named Steve Arena.
Prominent elected officials for Chicago, or for larger areas emcompassing it, include these (current or recent):
Dick Daley -- mayor of Chicago (current), Dick Phalen -- county board president, Dick Hardigan -- attorney general of the state, and Dick Devine -- top state's attorney, for the county (current)
My bank manager: Mr Lotz My vet: Dr Bark (I swear!) My ex-doctor: Dr Ricketts CEO of water utility company: Vincent Bath Security manager of large company: Mr Keys
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OH, these are a hoot! Welcome Julio! So happy to see you posting with us. I hope it is ok to call you Julio, as opposed to what I was going to say....JC....wonder how that would "influence the kind of person you become..."
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[From the web; account abbreviated; there seem to be conflicting views of what was found there.]
Aphrodite was the Greek goddess of love. According to myth she stopped in Knidos to wash herself of the seawater. In 1969, the architect [sic; should be "archeologiest"] Iris Love excavated at Knidos and found the ruins of Aphrodite's temple.
"I love funny names; my students' exams are full of them." ____________________
I wish I had saved a copy of the local phone book, circa 1985, wherein there was an unfortunate person listed under the name Penelope Poopstain. A Dutch name, perhaps, or maybe she worked in neonatology?
Some while ago in a nearby city two doctors were in practice together whose children we all hoped would join them. One was Jack Chitty, the other Cameron Bangs. Had they been joined by their progeny, they could have had the Chitty-Chitty-Bangs Bangs Clinic :
"I love funny names; my students' exams are full of them." ____________________
I wish I had saved a copy of the local phone book, circa 1985, wherein there was an unfortunate person listed under the name Penelope Poopstain. A Dutch name, perhaps, or maybe she worked in neonatology?
Some while ago in a nearby city two doctors were in practice together whose children we all hoped would join them. One was Jack Chitty, the other Cameron Bangs. Had they been joined by their progeny, they could have had the Chitty-Chitty-Bangs Bangs Clinic. :
"Uh, Asa.....you are stuttering hon!" _____________________________
Nah, that's not stutering. The first one was dingy grey, so I washed it and reposted it in glittering white.
Back in the days when I was a car nut I subscribed to a sports car magazine which had a journalist on staff named Bernard Cahier. Not funny until you know that Cahier in French means notebook.
quote:Originally posted by Asa Lovejoy: Some while ago in a nearby city two doctors were in practice together whose children we all hoped would join them. One was Jack Chitty, the other Cameron Bangs. Had they been joined by their progeny, they could have had the Chitty-Chitty-Bangs Bangs Clinic. :
In a related vein, I once knew an Emergency Room nurse by the name of Steve Banghart.
A few sites give the word aptRonym, which as best I can tell is in several on-line dictionaries but not in any printed ones. Apparently it was coinage (date unknown to me) which, though not in OED, achieved at least some recognition in The Oxford Companion to the English Language (1992) by Tom McArthur:
quote: Aptronym [from apt and -onym, with epenthetic r. Coined by Franklin P. Adams]. A name that matches its owner's occupation or character, often in a humorous or ironic way, such as William Rumhole, a London taverner. [note: I take this quote from the web, not the original source]
However, I would humbly suggest that timman's aptonym is better. I see no reason to insert that "enpenthetic r" to create "aptronym," particularly since the insertion violates the pattern of such r-less words as homonym, synonym etc.
I should add that the die has not yet been cast. Although aptronym gives more google hits than aptonym, they are far too few to suggest that the former has become standardized and accepted.
Oh, Shufitz! You beat me to it! I was so tired when I signed off last night, I didn't have time to post what I found:
quote:Aptronym is a word coined by Franklin P. Adams for a name that is aptly suited to its owner. In other words, an aptronym is a name that fits real good. Collecting aptronyms is generally good fun but gets a bit unnerving when you run into those which are horrifyingly apt: Will Drop, a Montreal window cleaner who died in a fall; and Willburn and Frizzel, who on the grim morning of October 6, 1941, went to the electric chair at the Florida State Prison.
For more on this and many wonderful examples see this page!
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