A Canadian Identity Crisis
This is a story about some of the personal, social and institutional difficulties of having a name from South India in Canada....
Fake Name Generator
At first I thought this was a little suspect but it could be useful for writers inventing character names, IT people checking user...
Trevor Noah- Names in Zambia
Here’s a comedy bit by Trevor Noah on naming people after things in Zambia [play from 0 - 1:30]:
The secret taxonomy behind IKEA’s product names, from Billy to Poäng
Here’s a story about Ikea naming things after people: https://qz.com/896146/how-ikea-names-its-products-the-curious-taxonomy-behind-billy...
Say My Name, Say My Name (Correctly, Please)
This podcast from NPR’s Code Switch program on race and identity explores how some people let others mispronounce their names because it...
Reading and Writing the Names at a Convocation Ceremony: Influences of Linguistic Ideologies on Name
At a Canadian university with a diverse population, orators at convocation ceremonies follow a protocol to facilitate the correct...
Goodness Gracious Me - If You Thought Indian Names Were Complicated!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-UNcnMo8fo
Illegal Baby Names: This Province Can Reject Your Baby Name
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/02/08/illegal-baby-names-canada_n_9186876.html
“Aleppo” chosen as “2016 Name of the Year”
“Aleppo” was chosen the Name of the Year for 2016 by the American Name Society at its annual meeting in Austin, Texas on January 6, 2017....
Drumpf
The whole thing is cutting and hilarious but his bit on the name Trump > Drumpf is why I am posting it. To skip to those bits, first...