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In English PURRgatory, in Spanish PurGATOrio. A bilingual pun is a pun created by a word or phrase in one language sounding similar to a different word or phrase in another language. The result of a bilingual pun can be a joke that makes sense in more than one language (a joke that can be translated) or a joke which requires understanding of ...
An alethonym ('true name') or an orthonym ('real name') is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study. Scholars studying onomastics are called onomasticians . Onomastics has applications in data mining , with applications such as named-entity recognition , or recognition of the origin of names.
On documents or forms requiring a first and last name, 山田 太郎 Yamada Tarō and 山田 花子 Yamada Hanako are very commonly used example names for men and women respectively, [29] comparable to John and Jane Smith in English. Both are generic but possible names in Japanese.
A proper name in philosophy is an expression (whether spoken, written, or otherwise encoded) whose specialized role is to denote some unique imaginary or real entity (a thing, a person, a place, an abstraction, or whatever). In this it does not differ materially from the concept of proper name as discussed in linguistic theory; but compared to ...
In the 2010s, transgender activists popularized the term deadname to refer to such a former name. The Oxford English Dictionary attests the use of deadname on Twitter in 2010, and deadnaming in 2013. [4] The term generally carries a negative connotation, with the implication that referring to a transgender person by their former name is ...
Gwyn and its variants are male given names, indicated by the spelling using "y" rather than "e". [1] Gwen or Gwendolen are female equivalents. Gwynne is a unisex Anglicised version of the name. Gwyneth can cause confusion, as this is a female name with apparently male spelling, however, this name has a different etymological origin. [2]
Most sovereign states have alternative names. Some countries have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. This article attempts to give all known alternative names and initialisms for all nations, countries, and sovereign states, in English and any predominant or official languages of the country in question.