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At the 2019 Name of the Year competition, held during the 2020 annual meeting of the American Name Society in New Orleans, the name “Baby Yoda” won in the “Artistic and Literary Name” category. In his report of the competition, Cleve Evans writes, 
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Arrokoth" was chosen the Name of the Year for 2019 by the American Name Society at its annual meeting in New Orleans on January 3, 2020. The winner was also chosen ANS's Place Name of the Ye
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Things can happen very quickly: Earlier Greta was just an inconspicuous retro name, now this first name is a political statement.
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Greta Thunberg: TIME Person of the Year 2019 92 years ago, TIME magazine named American aviator Charles Lindbergh its first “Man of the Year”. Fast-forward to 2019, and not only has the feature been renamed “Person of the Year”, but it’s been announced that the chosen candidate this year is a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl from Stockholm. …
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The American Name Society requests nominations for the Names of the Year for 2019.
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My move from Brooklyn to Denver this past fall came with a number of advantages: better bike trails, more snowboard runs, and fewer Yankee fans, to name a few. But one thing I wasn’t expecting to find was a city in love with rodeo. The yeehaw agenda has been in full swing since long before Lil Nas X took his horse to the you-know-what. So when late January rolled around, my girlfriend and I took a short walk to the National Western Stock Show (the world’s largest) for the 2019 ProRodeo, where we found ourselves about as far from Brooklyn as one can get.
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New Yorkers wishing to visit, or travel through, New Jersey have plenty of options. Among them are bridges: the George Washington, named after, um, George Washington; the Goethals, named after ... George Washington Goethals; and, finally, the Outerbridge Crossing. It is not named for the first president, nor for its location as the outermost/southernmost option in the five boroughs, on Staten Island. Instead, it honors Eugenius Outerbridge, the aptly monikered first chairman of the local Port Authority.
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You could probably think of a famous Johnny with Google-like quickness. Johnny Appleseed. Johnny Cash. Johnny Bench. Wikipedia lists dozens of notable Johnnys, and beyond that dozens more fictional Johnnys.
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Dr. Cleveland Evans writes about names for the Omaha World-Herald. In his January 18th column, he looks at the American Name Society's Name of the Year. Do you know where Arrokoth is? At its meet
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2019 is now past us and the 2010s are over. 2020 is here and the 2020s are set to roar in the naming scene. Which name defines 2019? Which ones define the decade? Which ones do I feel could define the 2020s out of a multitude of names already chosen by others? The way I…
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How a quintessential baby boomer name became a slur aimed at Generation X In 2019, the generation gap came charging back. We’d already seen warning signs of its approach in the form of older people bad-mouthing millennials, but the 2019 version was no longer as simple as old vs. young. …
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The name that went viral. The name that everybody argued about. The name that became a symbol. The name that you suddenly kept hearing, everywhere. What was the Name of the Year for 2019? The Name of the Year is a time capsule in name form. It doesn’t necessarily have …
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It's that time of year again! Will it be Archie? Greta? AOC? HYou decide.
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Today we’re talking about that famous heavy-duty generic paper-based product we all know and love. That’s right, folks, it’s cardboard time. You can fold it, you can recycle it, and lord knows you can corrugate it. But can you … Smurfit?
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As you may have noticed, we have not used this site very much this year, even though our annual festivities have begun over at Deadspin
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