When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Placeholder name - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placeholder_name

    Placeholder name. Placeholder name on a website. Placeholder names are intentionally overly generic and ambiguous terms referring to things, places, or people, the names of which or of whom do not actually exist; are temporarily forgotten, or are unimportant; or in order to avoid stigmatization, or because they are unknowable or unpredictable ...

  3. List of placeholder names - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_placeholder_names

    In Hebrew, the word זה (zeh, meaning 'this') is a placeholder for any noun. The term צ׳ופצ׳יק (chúpchik, meaning a protuberance, particularly the diacritical mark geresh), a borrowing of Russian чубчик (chúbchik, a diminutive of чуб chub "forelock") is also used by some speakers. [15]

  4. John Doe - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doe

    These names are also often used to refer to a hypothetical "everyman" in other contexts, like John Q. Public or "Joe Public". There are many variants to the above names, including John (or Richard)/Jane Roe, John/Jane Smith, John/Jane Bloggs, and Johnie/Janie Doe or just Baby Doe for children. A. N.

  5. Grammar Guy: Placeholder names for every Tom, Dick and Harry

    www.aol.com/news/grammar-guy-placeholder-names...

    For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us

  6. A. N. Other - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._N._Other

    Other. A. N. Other is used as a placeholder name or, less commonly, a pseudonym used by a person wishing to remain anonymous. It is most used in the United Kingdom, often written as AN Other. Occasionally it may be abbreviated to ANO, or—in cases where a female name is expected—rendered as Ann (e) Other. As a placeholder name, A. N.

  7. Foobar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar

    Foobar. The terms foobar (/ ˈfuːbɑːr /), foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, [1] and others are used as metasyntactic variables and placeholder names in computer programming or computer-related documentation. [2] They have been used to name entities such as variables, functions, and commands whose exact identity is unimportant and serve only to ...

  8. Talk:List of placeholder names - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_placeholder_names

    Dingenot, dimsedut, dibbedut, huddelifut, himstregims and tingest does not all come from the word dims. I removed that claim. "Tingest" obviously comes from the word "ting" (thing) and I seriously doubt "dingenot", "dibbedut", "huddelifut" and "himstregims" would come from "dims". They're likely just made up because of a lack of another word on ...

  9. Pseudonym - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonym

    William Sydney Porter, who went by the pen name O. Henry or Olivier Henry, in 1909. A pseudonym (/ ˈ sj uː d ə n ɪ m /; from Ancient Greek ψευδώνυμος (pseudṓnumos) 'lit. falsely named') or alias (/ ˈ eɪ l i. ə s /) is a fictitious name that a person assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true meaning ().