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Occupation Names: A Labor Day Salute
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  With Labor Day upon us, it seems like the perfect moment to focus on the original pre-barbecue meaning of the holiday and celebrate hard-working occupational names.  So we’re looking back to wtoe we wrote on the subject in our book Beyond Ava & Aiden, but here focusing on the less used, fresher sounding...
Midcentury Nickname Names: Buster and Buddy are back
Jan 16, 2025
  I don’t you know if you’ve noticed a growing trendlet—at least among celebrities—for what we might call generic-boy-nickname-names.  In other words, these aren’t specific short forms like Charlie or Archie, but ol- timey macho boy tags like Buddy and Buster.   In the recent past, we’ve seen Noel Gallagher’s Sonny, a...
Antiquarian Names: Colonial craftsmen names
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  For a number of years, when I wasn’t writing about names, I was writing about antiques and collectibles for a syndicated newspaper column.  But of course when I was thinking about antiques, I was still also thinking about names.   Looking at the field of antique furniture, for example, I found that...
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