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If you stop a random person on the street in China, there's a pretty good chance their surname would be either Wang, Li, Zhang, Liu or Chen.
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Once I was younger, I at all times hated being named Dale. That is principally as a result of my major picture of what Dales seemed like was formed by Dale Gribble from King of the Hill, and likewise Dale Earnhardt Jr., the NASCAR driver. Dale Gribble picture [credit], Dale Earnhardt Jr picture [credit] Neither […]
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Back in January, our editor in chief went to Luxembourg to speak in the Digital History and Hermeneutics colloquium series hosted by the Center for Contemporary and Digital History. A lovely write up of that presentation is now available on the C2DH blog: How medieval is your name, and why should computer science care?
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Alexander Mather, 13, named the rover "Perseverance"
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Das hatte ich bei meinen Auswertungen der Vornamenstatistik 2019 ganz übersehen – was macht eigentlich Alexa? Von 2000 bis 2014 sind jedes Jahr zwischen 200 und
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Time for the latest batch of name-related quotations! From a 1997 article in Jet magazine about how Jamie Foxx (born Eric Bishop) found success in comedy after changing his name: Foxx, who was dete…
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Here are a bunch of baby names we gathered that may not be so ideal in the 2020s, thanks to technology.
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which name would you recommend I address myself as in my voicemail greeting?
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born in 1806 in the south of England. The name “Isambard” came from his father, Marc Isambard Brunel (originally from France), and the name “Kingdom…
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Have you always asked "what is my Irish name?" Generators have come and gone but this new Irish-language name app helps you find out exactly the answer to your query "what is the Irish version of my name!" Developed by Professor Kevin Scannel, this Irish name database is all you need to find your Irish-language name.
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What if you could tap into society’s psyche and see how names frame our collective mental narratives? Now, perhaps you can. An artificial intelligence engine paves the way. Talktotransformer.com lets any user harness the power of a neural network system trained to write text. Just enter the beginning of a …
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My Hungarian Fishing License has been processed. I should arrive 15 minutes before my scheduled doctor’s appointment in Bogotá. My flight to São Paulo is ready for online check-in. Not to brag, but I have a pretty great email address. I was on Gmail early and managed to grab a …
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Actress Jameela Jamil labeled “Kamilah Al-Jamil” by E! News The red carpet prank pulled on actress Jameela Jamil at the Golden Globes back in January: Jameela Jamil’s name was spelled w…
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A baby boy called Ġanni is the first child to be officially named using Maltese fonts after an IT system change that recognises letters in the national language.
For the first time since the system was digitised, Maltese characters can be included in the public registry and on I
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The QWERTY effect applies to baby names too — researchers have found that people prefer names that can mostly be typed on the right side of the keyboard.
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An app that gave parents easy access to records on names for baby boys and girls has been shut down, but Service Alberta says it won't stop collecting data.
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She claims that her daughter, whose name is Alexa, has been constantly bullied and "treated like a servant" by other kids.
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Intrepid sleuths at XDA-Developers have uncovered code in the latest Google App, buld 10.93, that may be part of a new feature to improve the apps pronunciation abilties when it comes to proper names.
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Several thousand customers receive an apology from Aviva after they were all wrongly called Michael.
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Personable products aimed at your wallet are a definite mini-trend.
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From a Fodor’s article about the German gummy factory Haribo Fabrikverkauf: At first glance it may seem like the milchbären (milk bears) are simply traditional German gummy bears with a milky…
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“What’s your other child called?
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The ubiquity of virtual assistants in UK homes has coincided with the number of baby girls named Alexa dropping by more than 50 per cent, figures show
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One of them was a jumper with 'Google' written on it. Baby Google was then photographed wearing the jumper.
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