On May 2, 2006, at 18:55, Martha Krieg wrote:
I don't know ... but I have two more candidates:
My childhood pediatrician, Dr. Hendershot, and a chiropractor's office
in Canton, Ohio, with the placard "Tarzan and Treat" - I always
wondered if it was swinging on the vines that made the Treat-ment
necessary.
And Robin Panza (who's not on chat, but to whom I also sent the
question) said:
I don't know of a term for it, but I used to collect examples of
scientitsts who fit their work. That was *before* I started studying
birds. One of my favorites was the development of "The Social
Carnivore Theory" of human evolution by Lionel Tiger and Robin Fox.
Lions are social carnivores, but tigers and foxes aren't social and
Robins (excluding myself) aren't carnivores.
I like that story :)
As for the term, there seem to be so many, it looks like there isn't
one... here's another one, which came privately:
I'm not sure if this is an "official" word, but I've heard it called
an aptonym. apt=apt, nym=name
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Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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