MetaFilter, I'm creating two corporate entities for small side ventures, and I get to name them whatever I want! Suggestions/inspirations? (some parameters inside)
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posted by dry white toast
on Mar 1, 2013 -
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I'm looking for writings on modern given names, name lists and/or theories on why so many parents feel compelled to give children unusually spelled variants or completely invented names instead of names from the common stock, so to speak.
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posted by zadcat
on Jan 7, 2013 -
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What are all of the male/female homophone name pairs? I am looking for examples of names that sound alike but are spelled differently depending on whether the individual is male or female. Examples: Don/Dawn, Erin/Aaron, Francis/Frances, Yves/Eve.
posted by bq
on Sep 28, 2012 -
76 answers
What to call a presidential mouse and her twin sister? My library's Summer Reading Program mascots need names!
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posted by beekept
on May 25, 2012 -
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I am female. I have a unisex name. My male partners have always had unmistakably male names. Why, then, have new acquaintances continually called my male partners by my name?!
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posted by thrasher
on May 18, 2012 -
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I need pet names for guns from movies and TV.
For example, "Winona" was John Chrichton's blaster on
Farscape, and "Vera" was Jayne's tricked-out assault rifle on
Firefly.
Please give me more examples. Thanks!
posted by ScarletPumpernickel
on Apr 24, 2012 -
18 answers
BABY NAMES! *pistols fire in air* Yes, I'm that
desperate curious to come up with a name for my daughter that I'm asking the internet. Can you help me name mah baby?
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posted by cavalier
on Aug 15, 2011 -
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I'm an Englishman married to a Lithuanian - so we have 2 different, though similar, alphabets between us - how can we orthographically regularise our surnames? Alternative spellings? Double-barrelled names?
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posted by KMH
on Mar 4, 2011 -
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Why do we say 'Mark Antony' and not 'Marcus Antonius?' His name seems unique among Romans in the way we name them now - is it?
posted by tomboko
on Feb 25, 2011 -
22 answers
What is an Edgar Allan Poe (particularly the Pit and the Pendulum) theme that keeps up with the P alliteration and would be suitable for a geocache hidden under a pile of rocks?
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posted by FairlyFarley
on Jan 25, 2011 -
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Is there some kind of zoning ordiance in Seattle that all apartment buildings with above a certain number of units must have a name?
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posted by Ideal Impulse
on Jan 12, 2011 -
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If you were selling a product at (fictional example) socialnetworkmarketing.com, would you buy facebookmarketing.com and twittermarketing.com to just redirect to socialnetworkmarketing.com?
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posted by smersh
on Aug 3, 2010 -
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I was told that my great-great grandfather surname was double-barrelled and was subsequently changed to the last surname. Can I (under UK Law) use the double-barrelled name when signing official documents?
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posted by nam3d
on Jan 3, 2010 -
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Needed: Memory hacks. I have trouble remembering names. How do you do it?
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posted by ASM
on Oct 20, 2009 -
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How do you pronounce composer Charles Wuorinen's name? Which syllable is accented?
posted by mediareport
on Jul 16, 2009 -
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Unusual name filter: My first name is Irish and hard to spell and understand for most people. I have never had a nickname except for a juvenile one and various people making up a pronunciation of my name. But now I'm grown up and I constantly have to spell my name to people on the phone.
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posted by sio42
on Nov 14, 2008 -
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Who are some famous LIVING people, in America, who are named Joe, who are not fictional and, very important, who are NOT plumbers?
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posted by rileyray3000
on Nov 12, 2008 -
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I'm looking for suggestions for monosyllabic girl names that are more unique/interesting than things like "Ann" or "Jane" or "Sue" but still familiar enough that my as-yet-unnamed fetus won't have to go through life spelling out BOTH her first and last names for people. (She'll have my husband's last name to deal with--something like Dziewolrgjeoaezkxyzski.)
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posted by mere
on Sep 6, 2008 -
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A few years back, an older Israeli man told me that my daughter's name, Kameya, meant "good luck charm" in ancient Hebrew. Was he just pulling my leg?
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posted by Gucky
on Jun 19, 2008 -
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How do you pronounce the last name Vafai? I think that it is Iranian.
posted by ND¢
on Feb 12, 2007 -
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Cookie exchange in one hour! Need punny/clever name for my chocolate-covered peanut butter bars. The more political the better.
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posted by ilikecookies
on Dec 18, 2006 -
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I'd appreciate any and all advice associated with changing work environments -- whether practical advice (about little bits of personal business to remember, or health insurance crud), or mental/emotional advice (how to adjust internally), or sociological advice (how to smooth the transition into a new employee culture).
I also suck learning names -- hopefully they'll have nameplates, but anyone have tips for committing a large mass of names and faces to memory?
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posted by WCityMike
on Apr 13, 2005 -
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