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Biddy (from the name Bridget) is a female equivalent placeholder name for Irish females. Also note that the Hiberno-English placeholder names Yer man, Yer one and Himself/Herself are long-established idioms derived from the syntax of the Irish language.
As an example, Londonistan is a placeholder name that evokes the perception of London's high Muslim population. [6] Timbuktu, a real city in Mali, is often used to mean a place that is far away, in the middle of nowhere, or exotic. Kalamazoo, also a real city, is similarly used to indicate an unknown or far-away place.
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Grammar Guy Curtis Honeycutt writes about placeholder names used by different kinds of people and industries.
Ivanov, being derived from the most common first name, is a placeholder for an arbitrary person. In its plural form, "Ivanovs", it may be used as a placeholder for a group of people. [ 59 ] There is a military joke: The sergeant asks the rookies: "Your surnames!"
Example scenario where communication between Alice and Bob is intercepted by Mallory. Alice and Bob are fictional characters commonly used as placeholders in discussions about cryptographic systems and protocols, [1] and in other science and engineering literature where there are several participants in a thought experiment.
John Q. Public (and several similar names; see the Variations section below) is a generic name and placeholder name, especially in American English, to denote a hypothetical member of society, deemed a "common man", who is presumed to represent the randomly selected "man on the street". The equivalent term in British English is Joe Public.
n November 1954, 29-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. was driving to Hollywood when a car crash left his eye mangled beyond repair. Doubting his potential as a one-eyed entertainer, the burgeoning performer sought a solution at the same venerable institution where other misfortunate starlets had gone to fill their vacant sockets: Mager & Gougelman, a family-owned business in New York City that has ...