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What’s in a name?<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n

NAMES are everywhere, but it may seem like names are only given to people. You can call a person \u201cBen\u201d, \u201cTom\u201d or \u201cRichard\u201d, but you would never call a car or a chair by name. But while names may just seem like a collection<\/strong> of sounds, they can actually have meanings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRichard\u201d, for example, is made up of old German words \u2013 \u201cRik\u201d and \u201cHardu\u201d, which mean \u201cruler\u201d and \u201cstrong\u201d respectively<\/strong>. So Richard could mean \u201cstrong ruler<\/strong>\u201c. Many names have clear meanings like that, which is why parents think hard of what a name means or represents. Everyone likes the name Alexander, since this is the same name as the famous military leader of antiquity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many people are also named after flowers or plants, usually in English. Consider \u201cRose\u201d, \u201cDaisy\u201d, or perhaps \u201cIvy\u201d. But they do not have to be English words all the time. \u201cEdelweiss\u201d is the German name for a flower grown in Germany, while \u201cLanhua\u201d is an alternative<\/strong> to being named \u201corchid\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While you may not think of it, cities and towns can also get people\u2019s names. Consider Saint Petersburg in Russia \u2013 a \u201cburg\u201d is an old way of saying \u201ctown\u201d, so this is just saying \u201cthe town called Saint Peter\u201d. In the US, there is Georgetown, which is even more on the nose<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Credits: Issue 01, 29 September 2022 (Thursday) by Quest from hke<\/em>j<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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