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Talk the Talk Podcast Episode About Names
After reading the New York Times Interview with ANS Information Officer Lisa Spira, Talk the Talk decided to talk about names.
Talk the Talk is a weekly linguistics podcast from the community radio station RTR, in Perth, Australia. Listen to Episode 266 to learn some great stories about names and their etymologies.… Read More
Cuba’s ‘Generation Y’ Names
With Cuba in the news this week, it might be interesting to take a look at the unique naming trends of Cuba’s “Generation Y.”
Top 10 Hispanic baby names in the United States in 2015
According to the names website, www.babycenter.com, 2015 saw some very interesting changes in the most popular list for Hispanic baby names in the US. While the names Valeria, Zoe, and Melanie failed to make it to the list of ten most popular girls names, the names Samantha and Emily just managed to reach a top spot. Among the boys names, Mateo and Sebastián were able to maintain their popularity and Daniel and Alexander pushed forward to take sports six and seven. Here is the entire listing with more interesting facts.
About Muslim Personal Names
The Islamic world not only has a rich culture, filled with fine arts, music, and literature. It also has a rich history of beautiful personal names. Here are a few websites where you can learn more about personal names from the Muslim world, their fascinating history, and their meanings:
Names Meaning Peace: From Axel to Zuelia
Absalom (Hebrew), Pacifica (Spanish), Calum (Celtic), and Selima (Arabic), Baris (Turkish), Zalman (Yiddish), Amani (Swahili), and Inga (Norse). What do all of these names have in common? They are all names associated with peace and love, which is something the world needs more of these days. Read more names for peace on Nameberry.com.The Embarrassment of Forgetting a Name
It has happened to all of us at least once; and to more than a few of us, several times: forgetting someone’s name. It is a universally embarrassing, all too common, experience. In this BBC article, journalist Tom Stafford takes a closer look at this phenomenon and helps to explain the science behind forgetting and remembering people’s names.
Ubiquitous nicknames defy officialdom and good taste in Philippines
“The Punisher”, “Harry”, “The Real Eagle of Davao”. These are all names for one and the same person: President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines. Read more about the feisty politician who’s been known to use more than a few colorful nicknames himself.
Workshop on Morphological Issues of Modern Greek Lexicography, Nicosia, Cyprus, June 22, 2017
On the 22nd of June, 2017, a special workshop examining the morphological issues of modern Greek lexicography will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus. The one-day event will be a part of the 11th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting that will be taking place from the 22nd to the 25th of June 2017 in Nicosia. All interested lexicographers are invited to send in abstracts, no longer than 400 words, to mmm11cy@gmail.com. The deadline for submission is 1 February 2017.
Where the streets have new names: the airbrush politics of renaming roads
Leaders rise and leaders fall. Communities that try to keep up with these vicissitudes may soon find themselves in a real political and financial bind, when it comes to the names that adorn their streets, alleys, rivers, highways, and byways. What is a legislature to do? Should it keep the toponymic reminders of leaders gone-by as valuable sociohistorical signposts of days-gone-by? Or should it try to go with the times and periodically replace public toponyms, particularly those once inspired by leaders who have since fallen into disrepute. In this UK Guardian article, reporter, Nick Van Mead, explores this question and how it has been answered in several major US and European cities.