Do you know anyone whose last name appropriately describes them? Such names are called an aptronym because their name “aptly” matches their job or personality in a humorous or ironic way. During the ...
In the first round of the women's 100-meter hurdles on Monday, Bulgaria's Vania Stambolova, quite literally, stumbled over a hurdle and didn't finish, an Olympic result her own name had shrewdly ...
One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect "aptronyms"--the newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams's term for people whose names were curiously appropriate to, or provided ironic comment on, their ...
None of this year’s examples could best the 2014 aptronym of the year: Don Popadick, the 62-year-old Canadian man arrested for repeatedly flashing visitors in Mooney’s Bay Park in Ottawa. Still, we ...
Writes Joe from Menomonie: “Reading Daycare Mom of Shoreview’s BB account — regarding the name ‘Edison Lobao’ as the Energy Minister for Brazil — reminded me that I have been meaning to forward a ...
Do you know anyone whose last name appropriately describes them? Such names are called an aptronym because their name “aptly” matches their job or personality in a humorous or ironic way. During the ...
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