HISPANIC NAMES ... Later came the 'Baby Ruth' candy bar. ..

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NAMES AND -NYMS

• by Don L. F. Nilsen
• and Alleen Pace Nilsen

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Calling Someone Out of Their NameHenry Louis
Gates Jr.s Father

• Henry Louis Gates Jr. became famous as the author
  of The Signifying Monkey A Theory of
  Afro-American Literary Criticism (1988). He was
  included in Time Magazines 25 Most Influential
  Americans.
• Gates tells about Mr. Wilson and his father

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• His father always spoke to Mr. Wilson, and Mr.
  Wilson always spoke back
• Hello, Mr. Wilson, I heard my father say.
• Hello, George.
• I stopped licking my ice cream cone, and asked my
  Dad in a loud voice why Mr. Wilson had called him
  George.
• Doesnt he know your name, Daddy? Why dont you
  tell him your name? Your name isnt George.

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• Tell him your name, Daddy.
• He knows my name, boy, my father said after a
  long pause. He calls all colored people
  George.
• There would be a painful moment of silence, and
  you would wait for it to give way for a
  discussion of a black superstar such as Sugar Ray
  or Jackie Robinson.
• Nobody hits better in a clutch than Jackie
  Robinson.
• Thats right. Nobody.
• I never again looked Mr. Wilson in the eye.
• (Gates 2009 56-58)

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Tom Rossa.k.a. Tikvah Rosenberg

• In 1938, the Rosenbergs left Nazi Germany when
  Tom was six.
• In an attempt to downplay their Jewish heritage,
  the Rosenbergs changed their surname to Ross when
  they arrived in the United States.
• In order to regain his cultural heritage, Tom
  legally changed his surname back to Rosenberg.

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• But telling his children was difficult The
  initiatives attacking social services for
  immigrants, bilingual education, Affirmative
  Actionmade me want to shout Im an immigrant!
  My children were silent for a moment before they
  smiled, leaned over, and hugged me.
• When his rabbi heard of his decision, he asked
  Tom if he had thought about taking a Hebrew first
  name?

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• About his decision, he tells his children, Every
  time I step into a temple, Im reminded that
  Judaism has survived for 4,000 years.
• It has survived because it is a positive
  religion. My parents, your grandparents, changed
  their name out of fear. Im changing it back out
  of pride.
• I chose the name Tikvah because it means hope.
• (Rosenberg 2009 61-63)

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CHARACTERS FROM LITERATURE, ETC.

• David Copperfield is a character in a Charles
  Dickens novel.
• The other David Copperfield is a magician.
• Englebert Humperdink is the German Composer of
  the opera Hansel and Gretel.
• The other Englebert Humperdink is a rock
  musician.
• Tom Jones is a character in a Henry Fielding
  novel.
• The other Tom Jones is a rock musician.
• (Nilsen Nilsen 12)

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HISPANIC NAMES

• In Spain and Latin America, if a girl were named
  Ana Maria López Garcia, she has two surnames.
  The first one is her fathers (López), and the
  second one is her mothers (Garcia).
• (Bengoa 3)

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• If Ana Maria López Garcia married Gregorio Díaz
  Rodriguez, then she would write her name as Ana
  Maria López de Díaz.
• In Mexico, Ana Maria López de Díaz would go by
  her maiden name daily (Maria López Garcia), but
  on formal documentation she would identify
  herself with her married name (Ana Maria López de
  Díaz).
• (Bengoa 3-4)

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• If she were to have a child, Alicia, Alicias
  full name would be Alicia López Díaz, keeping
  both her fathers and her mothers surnames.
• (Bengoa 3).

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SUSANNE K. LANGERS OBSERVATION

• Watch a young child that is just learning to
  speak play with a toy he says the name of the
  object, e.g. Horsey! horsey! horsey! over and
  over again, and looks at the object, moves it,
  always saying the name to himself or to the world
  at large.
• Its quite a time before he talks to anyone in
  particular he talks first of all to himself.
• (Langer (2009) 81)

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• This is his way of forming and fixing the
  conception of the object in his mind, and around
  this conception all his knowledge of it grows.
  Names are the essence of language (Langer
  2009 81).
• for the name is what abstracts the conception
  of the horse from the horse itself, and lets the
  mere idea recur at the speaking of the name.
  This permits the conception gathered from one
  horse experience to be exemplified again by
  another instance of a horse, so that the notion
  embodied in the name is a general notion.
• (Langer 2009 81)

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STAGE NAMES TOWARD ETHNICITY

• Caryn Johnson ? Whoopi Goldberg
• Yakov Pokhis ? Yakov Smirnoff (to be associated
  with Russian vodka)

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STAGE NAMES AWAY FROM ETHNICITY

• Aaron Chwatt ? Red Buttons
• Jacob Cohen ? Rodney Dangerfield
• David Kaminsky ? Danny Kaye
• Melvin Kaminsky ? Mel Brooks
• Allan Konigsberg ? Woody Allen
• Joseph Levitch ? Jerry Lewis
• Paul Rubenfeld ? Pee-Wee Herman
• Gerald Silberman ? Gene Wilder
• Eschholz, Rosa Clark 2009 63)

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STAGES TOWARD FORMALITY

• Frances Gumm ? Judy Garland
• Gary Keillor ? Garrison Keillor
• Susan Weaver ? Sigourney Weaver
• (Eschholz, Rosa Clark 2009 63)

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STAGE NAMES AWAY FROM FORMALITY

• Phyllis Driver ? Phyllis Diller
• Herbert Gleason ? Jackie Gleason
• Leonard Hackett ? Buddy Hackett
• Joseph Keaton ? Buster Keaton
• Shelton Lee ? Spike Lee
• Milton Superman ? Soupy Sales
• Clerow Wilson ? Flip Wilson
• (Nilsen Nilsen 286-287)

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MADONNA

• A member of the American Name Society interviewed
  Madonna, who expressed surprise that anyone still
  thought of the mother of Jesus when hearing the
  name of Madonna.
• (Nilsen Nilsen 13)

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THE MARX BROTHERS

• Art Fisher was the first one to give stage names
  to the Marx Brothers. Groucho explains
• I was the moody one, so he called me Groucho.
  The harp player Adolphwho, after Hitlers rise
  to power changed his name to Arthurwould be
  known as Harpo. The fellow who wore the
  gumshoes (Milton, who had a habit of sneaking
  around backstage) would be known as Gummo. And
  the one constantly chasing the pretty chicks
  would be called Chicko. When a typesetter
  accidentally left the k out of Chickos name, he
  became Chico.
• (Nilsen Nilsen 287)

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MARX AND LENIN

• In celebration of its independence from the
  Soviet Union, the country of Abkhazia issued a
  stamp honoring Marx and Lenin.
• If someone looks closely at the stamp, they can
  see pictures of Groucho Marx and John Lennon of
  the Beatles.
• (Nilsen Nilsen 13)

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VLADIMIR NABOKOV

• LOLITA, light of my life, fire of my loins. My
  sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta the tip of the tongue
  taking a trip of three steps down the palate to
  tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.
• She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing
  four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in
  slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was
  Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she
  was always Lolita.
• (Nabokov 7)

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DOLLY PARTON

• Dolly is the name of the first cloned sheep.
• This is because Dolly was cloned from a mammary
  gland.
• She was named, therefore, in honor of the buxom
  Dolly Parton.
• (Nilsen Nilsen 12)

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PRODUCT STORE NAMES

• Hush Puppy shoes are for tired dogs. Hush
  Puppies (cornmeal fried with fish) were given
  their name because they were thrown to dogs to
  keep them from whining.
• V-8 Vegetable Juice was named after the Ford V-8
  engine. The Ford engine was V-shaped and had 8
  cylinders V-8 juice has 8 vegetable juices.
• Circle K is like OK.
• 7-Eleven comes from the game of Craps, a game
  of dice. Originally, it was open from 7 AM until
  11 PM.
• (Nilsen Nilsen 12)

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BABY RUTH

• The original Baby Ruth was the daughter of
  President Grover Clevelands.
• In 1914, when he was only 19 and had a childlike
  personality, George Herman Ruths baseball fans
  started calling him Babe, which later became
  Babe Ruth in association with President
  Clevelands baby.
• Later came the Baby Ruth candy bar.
• (Nilsen Nilsen 13)

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TOPONYMICS

• The Rock of Gibraltar and the Hudson River gave
  us the name of Rock Hudson.
• Janet Rasmussens father changed their family
  name to Reno, after a city in Nevada.
• Other such names are River Phoenix, John Denver,
  Tennessee Williams, Minnesota Fats, Chevy Chase,
  Indiana Jones, and all of the people named
  Dakota, Tex, Cody, Montana, etc.
• (Nilsen Nilsen 12)

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• TYPES OF NAMES AND -NYMS
• ACRONYMS radar, unesco
• ANTONYMS boy-girl, black-white
• APTONYMS Hunt and Chase (hunters), Payne
  (dentist)
• CACONYMS Englebert Humperdink, Hubert Humphrey
• CRYPTONYMS 007, 99

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• EPONYMS ferris wheel, salk vaccine
• EUPHONYMS Edna St. Vincent Millay
• EXONYMS Chinese Checkers, Gypsies, Mormons,
  Navajos, Papago, Quakers, Wales
• GENERIC EPONYMS Bud, Guy, Jack (le jacquerie),
  Jane, John
• HETERONYMS bass, bow, close, dove, house, lead,
  read, row, sow, tear, wind, wound

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• HOMOGRAPHS bank, bank
• HOMONYMS to-too-two, bank-bank
• HOMOPHONES to-too-two
• LABELS OF PRIMARY POTENCY abortion, honkey, red
  neck
• NICKNAMES Bob, Dick, Tom
• ORONYMS the stuffy nose vs. the stuff he knows,
  the Pulitzer prize vs. the pullet surprise, iced
  ink vs. I stink

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• NOM DE GUERRE Geronimo
• PATRONYMS Nilsen, MacDonald, Fitzpatrick,
  Colovitch, Gutierrez, Bin Laden, Ebnascena
• PSEUDONYMS (PEN NAME) Mark Twain, Lewis
  Carroll
• STRESSONYMS convert, desert, intimate, invalid,
  minute, object, Polish, present, produce,
  record, refuse, sewer, subject
• SYNONYMS big, great

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CONCLUSION PERSONAL INFORMATION I. WRITE DOWN
THE FOLLOWING 1. Your own last name, 2. Last
names of your friends, 3. Last names of your
relatives, 4. Last names of famous people you
know II. PLACE THE NAMES YOU WROTE DOWN INTO
THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES 1. Derived from a
place, 2. Derived from an occupation, 3. Derived
from a description, 4. Derived from a relative
(Patronymic)
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WOMEN'S NAMES My wife could identify herself
with any of the following names 1. Alleen Pace,
2. Alleen Pace-Nilsen, 3. Alleen Pace Nilsen, 4.
Alleen Nilsen, 5. Mrs. Don L. F. Nilsen. Tell
about women that you know that make one of the
above choices, and explain why. PLACE NAMES
Write down the names of five states in the United
States. Also write down the names of five cities
in your home state. Be able to explain both.
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PLACE NAMES LIST CITIES

• Arizona
• California
• Florida
• Illinois
• Michigan
• New York
• South Carolina
• Texas
• Virginia

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NAMES WEB SITES

• AMERICAN NAME SOCIETY
• http//www.wtsn.binghamton.edu/ANS/
• HUMOROUS NAMES OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS
• http//www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/sillymols
  .htm
• PRODUCT NAMING
• http//www.namedevelopment.com/index.html