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An aptronym, aptonym, or euonym is a personal name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner (e.g. their occupation). [1] Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post coined the word inaptonym as an antonym for "aptonym". [2] The word "euonym" (eu-+ -onym), dated to late 1800, is defined as "a name well suited to the person, place, or thing named". [3]
The name "Vasya Pupkin" (Russian: Вася Пупкин) may be used to denote an average random or unknown person in the colloquial speech. [60] [61] For a group of average persons or to stress the randomness of a selection, a triple common Russian surnames are used together in the same context: "Ivanov, Petrov, or Sidorov".
William Foyle was one of the leading London booksellers of the 20th century. In 1903 he opened his first bookshop with his brother Gilbert and by the late 1920s the business had grown so rapidly that their bookstore in Charing Cross Road held a stock of four million volumes on over thirty miles of bookshelves, and the name of Foyle had become ...
Catholic Book shop in Victoria, Australia A bookshop in the town of Sastamala (Pirkanmaa, Finland) Atuagkat Bookstore in the city of Nuuk (Sermersooq, Greenland). Bookstores (called bookshops in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and most of the Commonwealth, apart from Canada) may be either part of a chain, or local independent bookstores.
Blue plaque commemorating Nancy Mitford, who worked at the bookshop during the Second World War. The shop was opened by George Heywood Hill on 3 August 1936, with the help of Lady Anne Gathorne-Hardy, who would later become his wife.
The Book Room Canada: Halifax, Nova Scotia: was, at the time of its 2008 closing, the oldest bookstore in Canada (defunct) Camas Bookstore and Infoshop Canada: Victoria, British Columbia: Common Woman Books Canada (feminist, defunct) Glad Day Bookshop Canada: Toronto, Ontario: Highway Book Shop Canada: Cobalt, Ontario (defunct) Hyman's Book and ...
The couple agreed on this name “because of its suggestion of retailing news and ideas from no one particular source.” [5] The bookstore moved four times before finding its permanent home on Liverpool's Bold Street, and its current location was only able to be purchased through the "enormous public response" from the Liverpool community that ...
I wanted a name that would tell people what the shop was about. So I tried to think of the most prominent person whose name I could use who is most readily identifiable as a Homosexual by most people, someone who's sort of a pseudo-martyr. And Oscar Wilde was the most obvious at the time, so I called it the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop. [14] [15]