What's in a name?
William ShakespeareThere are cultures in which it is believed that a name contains all a persons mystical power. That a name should be known only to God and to the person who holds it and to very few privileged others. To pronounce such a name either ones own or someone else's is to invite jeopardy. This it seemed was such a name.
Diane SetterfieldTags: names
They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but Storm after his father and his mother.
John CrowleyTags: names naming john-storm-drinkwater
What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now.
You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank.
Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.”
Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up.
Tags: men woman women feminism insults names sexism double-standards womanhood eye-opening gender-inequality
I guess it could be worse. My name could be Tlaquepaque, or Irkutsk, or Pyongyang. Or, you know, Pittsburgh. Sometimes I flip through the atlas just to remind myself of all the names that would be worse than mine.
Tamara SummersTags: humor names atlas jack jakarta
None of us have a real name, Leonidas, just names we like and names people give us.
Kendra L. SaundersTags: names inanimate-objects leonidas-bondi
names are a way to keep people in your mind
Maggie StiefvaterTags: names
Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemos.
Bernard of ClunyTags: loss roses purity corruption names decline disappearance void ubi-sunt
Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.
Joe AbercrombieDespite a few exceptions, I have found that Americans are now far more willing to learn new names, just as they're far more willing to try new ethnic foods... It's like adding a few new spices to the kitchen pantry.
Firoozeh DumasTags: food names american kitchen spices
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