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Thursday, November 05, 2009

Boy's names: Pushing the Envelope

Time, February 13, 1956

Felix Houphouet*-Boigny is the first Negro ever to hold Cabinet rank in France.

* "Houphouet" is a Baule word meaning "pit for excrement". His father's parents, desperate when their first four children died in infancy, adopted the tribal custom of giving the fifth child a name indicating that he was unloved, unloveable and worthless, to divert the evil spirits that had taken the first four. The local sorcerer recommended Houphouet. "It worked," said Houphouet-Boigny, who, like all his descendants, must forever bear the name which saved his father.

Autres Temps

Hooray! The shop has more old Time magazines.

February 13, 1956

From a raised pavilion, the Queen accepted the homage of, among others, the Rwang Pam of Dirom, the Atta of Igala, the Tor of Tiv, the Och of Idoma and the Elsu Nupe.

Sunday, September 06, 2009

Title, indeed

Optus account registration does give you quite a list of options:
Bshp
Cptn
Dame
Dr
Drs
Eldr
Lady
Mjor
Miss
Mr
Mrs
Ms
Prof
Pstr (as in Pstr Inquvist)
Rev
The
though I suppose one might also need
Genl
Mthr
Brtr
Sstr
Imam
Rabb
Any other nominations?

Gddy, I suppose. A fart upon you, goody Borthwick.

Peerages like Earl, etc. I suppose don't count because they're not attached to your surname. And Bart comes afterwards.



How one identifies Very Reverends or Professors Emeritus is not clear.

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