I was reading an essay this morning on Sappho, great lyric poetess. Her husband's name is recorded by later sources as Kerkylas of Andros. This accepted straightforwardly by generations of scholars, until it was pointed out that the name is a joke: its the Greek equivalent of Dick Allcock from the Isle of MAN.
There's an excellent cross-cultural Onomastikon (dictionary of names) at
http://www.flick.com/onomastikon/
that includes sources from many cultures in the ancient and medieval world.
John
> Marcus Galeottus tells us
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> << But before this gets
> too OT, Andrew also usefully raised the Puritan names based on
> virtues and injuctions. I tend to use these for Black Horse County, >>
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> I like this idea, except the Black Horse might have slightly different
names
> as a result;
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> "Betrayal! Stop hitting Murder like that, he's only little."
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> << but I suppose Lunars might call their kids names like Inclusive,
> Scarlet, Cyclical and Glowline.
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> (Though part of me would have liked to have gone simply with Romanic
> names like Quintus, Marcus and Valerianus as the standard for Lunars.
> Why? Well, as the Goddess says, 'We are all -us') >>
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> Combining these two thoughts gives: - Inclusivus, Scarletus, Cyclicallus,
> Glowlinus,
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> Hey! Not bad. Weyarrullus
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> Keithus Nellistus
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