The Lasting Impact of Mispronouncing Students’ Names
Thinking of starting this kind of effort in Canada… http://neatoday.org/2016/09/01/pronouncing-students-names/
Is Hayden a Boy or Girl? Both. ‘Post-Gender’ Baby Names Are on the Rise.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/fashion/gender-neutral-baby-names.html
The New Tug of War Over Baby Names
Paying for naming rights on babies?! https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/fashion/your-choice-or-theirs-the-new-tug-of-war-over-baby-names....
The Clever Way Starbucks Customers Are Insisting ‘Black Lives Matter’ Is Heard
Using a slogan as a personal name for political purposes. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-clever-way-starbucks-customers-are-insi...
How not to name your child – five golden rules
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jul/16/how-not-to-name-your-child-five-golden-rules
"They can learn to say my name"
Newcomers to Canada whose names index identities other than ‘‘white’’ and ‘‘English’’ face pressure to alter their names to facilitate...
Baby named Sahaiʔa prompts changes to Vital Statistics Act
Following up on a story from 2015. Slowly things change… http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nwt-aboriginal-font-official-id-1.3630353
Cattle Brand Names in Montana
Carol Lombard was our keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Names. Her research on cattle brand...
Immigrant- Alysha Brilla
She sings about a man who immigrates from Tanzania to Canada... "they say my name's funny...They don't know me by my name, but I guess to...
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Names
On June 2, 2016 was the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Names. Lots of interesting papers, especially one by...