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I know Karens are hard. As a member of Gen X, I grew up surrounded by them. 
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Years ago my father described my Uncle Bill’s first day at Concord School. My uncle did not answer to his name any of the three times his first-grade
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Hedda Hopper was a gossip columnist who came to fame in the early 1940s (when she was in her 50s). But “Hedda Hopper” wasn’t her original name. It was Elda Furry. She’d been…
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This is interesting because Hedda doesn't sound so different from the set either. It's not as if she changed her name to Dorothy or Rosanne.
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However, for the children themselves, this name is their ‘label’; their stamp of identity which they will carry with them through life (unless they officially change it), and it can have a lot of social repercussions
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“Jamal Khashoggi” was chosen the Name of the Year for 2018 by the American Name Society at its annual meeting in New York City on January 4, 2019.
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Apparently the team at Amazon wanted to replicate the computer in Star Trek, which answered when the crew called out "computer," but they needed a word people didn't ordinarily use in everyday life.
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The 2016 Award Winner is:
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Women named after the ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility describe the pain of dealing with constant ‘jokes’ about terrorism
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“I feel sorry about this, but this is out of my control.” Ali responded, “Don’t worry, you’re just a little brother of the white power structure.”
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Goodness, I hope times have changed for the better.
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Journalist Annabel Crabb, and her husband Jeremy Storer, welcomed their daughter Kate late last year. Kate Storer joined big sister Audrey and big brother Elliott. Annabel has worked as London corr...
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And a belated welcome to Kate.
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I am obsessed with baby names because I can fantasise about cooler, more thrilling names than my own
It’s just a tragic fantasy about whether I’d be more helpful to mankind, or a better person, were I called somethin
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But- but- her name is Gwendolyn! Who wouldn't want to be called that!
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Less than a month after her story hit headlines, the UP woman who named her child after the PM blames a journalist cousin for perpetrating a “fraud”. She now wants a new name for her son — Aftab Alam Mohd Modi. More simply, Aftab
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What a storm!
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I am so over kale. I’m weary of it in smoothies. I don’t like the leafy green vegetable (and former garnish) as a juice. Kale — in its chewy adult and baby forms — has jumped the shark and is in too many salads and saute dishes. There are dozens, if not hundreds of other leafy …
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The story's old news, but I'm also here to document the way people write about names (onomastography?). And this is an example.
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The editorial board of the journal Voprosy Onomastiki (Problems of Onomastics) is pleased to inform you of the publication of Vol. 15 (2018), Issue 2. The issue is available on the journal’s website.
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Here are some extra details on the woman behind the name Perian, which came up in last week’s post about What’s My Line? names. 1963: unlisted 1962: 8 baby girls named Perian 1961: 5 ba…
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Hunter combines a preppy, buttoned-down sensibility with a rugged, outdoorsy edge. It's a surprisingly versatile name, with history galore.
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“In the good old days, the saying was that Ever E. Body got a middle initial in The Times,” explains the paper’s chief copy editor, Jill (no middle initial) Taylor. “But that blanket practice has given way to preference.”
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If you were having a son, and you had to name him either Malcolm or Haynes, which would it be?
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