What’s in a Name?

Is this your name? Here’s a fun one: what’s in a name? Try this site “Is this your name” to find out some trivia about your name: how envoweled is your name the ascii binary code equivalent the Pig Latin version how many other people might have...

Minter Dialogue: A New Blog Title

What’s in a name? After 1 1/2 years of existence, my blog continues to be an activity of no uncertain pleasure for me. I had for some time thought that the fact that its name, eponymous Minter Dial’s Blog, was not exactly a marketing angle, or meaningful...

Irony of names

Have you ever read John Train’s “Most Remarkable Book of [Real People’s] Names”? Most recommendable. You will find that a married couple was called Doctor and Doctor Doctor. Then to list but a few of the enormously weird names out there: Gaston...

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