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Here's one draft of my recommended addition to Nominative Determinism:

"Much of this was known by 1980 to 1989. And is documented, first, in Dr. Gaddie's semi-serious 1982 article in Etc: A Review of General Semantics (Griffin Gaddie, "News Names," Etc.:  A Review of General Semantics, v. 39 #4, Winter 1982, pp. 383-87).  And then more seriously in his 1989 dissertation (Griffin Gaddie, Homophony and Paronomasia in America: On the Validy of Puns," 1989 Bowling Green State). In these works, Dr. Gaddie suggested that many people rightly feel that modern words, names, have links, origins, in older, similar-sounding words. As scholars in fact know, from etymology. And everyday people often know that even modern proper, last names, like "Miller" or "Smith," often came from our ancestors, who were millers, or blacksmiths, and so forth. Eventually, partly because of these known ancient roots, or some semiconscious, punning intuition of similar things, many, many ordinary people and poets, have come to hypothesize a kind of deep, historical or other significance to our personal names - and to all names, all words. And as it turns out, said Dr. Gaddie, some of those intuited links are real, or valid; though some are perhaps imagined, or lampooned as mere puns. Some are suggested by existing dictionaries. But also, said Gaddie, a new kind of "visual thinking" etymological study, can clarify many previously unsuspected links between "different" words, that many thought just "happened" to sound similar, or alike.

Many everyday people intuit strange links between similar sounding words; and making puns, jokes, on them. But, says Dr. Gaddie? Some of the links between "different" but similar-sounding words, names, are seriously sustainable. Even children pun, teasingly, on other's names. And Dr. Gaddie notes in his 1989 dissertation, 1) there are often in point of fact, many previously unknown links between "different" words that "happen" to sound similar or alike; like to, too, and two, specifically.  But to be sure, some links are probably more speculative.  In particular, 2) Dr. Gaddie noted a curious but widespread phenomenon, in which people in any case try to act out, conform to, faintly intuited links between modern words, and similar sounding words, homophones. In particular, people in fact, often end up in professions that fit their names. So for example? Our popular news reporter, "Leslie Stahl," might well have read her name as telling her to tell "less lies; stall." Such a person might well have gravitated to the news profession; since in that profession, accuracy of reportage - telling "less lies" - is important. And furthermore, a reporter should avoid coming to hasty conclusions about a newly-emerging story. And should wait - or "stall" - while waiting for later clarifying and corroborating accounts.

These and other early hypotheses by Dr. Gaddie, were soon quickly elaborated - and in some ways possibly refined - by other, science-based investigators. Especially in works, say, noting the number of medical personnel, whose names seems to have steered them into the profession of Urology.

May 2019
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