Name: 名称 (Names)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:21:06.000Z
Duration: 7 min 54 s
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whistle sounds and will respond to their whistle name

even when produced by a dolphin they don't know.

things, signifying that the named thing is capable of

feeling. That it's worthy of empathy. The United Nations

Convention on the Rights of the Child has declared that every

to a name. Every country on earth has ratified the treaty,

except for three: South Sudan, the newest country on earth,

Somalia, which has no central government, and

inside the United States believe that the US

shouldn't have to listen to another authority and the treaty prohibits

It's a moot point now but up until 2005 twenty-two states

for crimes. The United States follows the treaty now but won't promise to

a bad name to be called but an even worse name

Popular in his time, later scholars looked down on his teachings as

clever but wrong. They were so critical, in fact, they took

Duns and turned his name into a noun meaning

Perhaps you'd rather have had the longest name

ever. A record held by a man born in 1904 whose name was 746 letters

long. You can listen to someone pronounce the entire name

North or Moon Unit. You can name your kid

Football. But not everywhere. Some countries require parents to submit

for approval. New Zealand enforces a policy in which names

must not cause offence to a reasonable person,

not be unreasonably long and should not resemble an official title

or rank. For example, their courts recently forbid a mother

But New Zealand has allowed some unusual names.

Right now, in New Zealand, there are children living

whose names are officially "Violence," "Midnight Chardonnay"

In 1996 a Swedish couple submitted their child's name

for official approval, "Albin." But in protest of the naming laws in place at

In the United States you can name your kid pretty much anything that doesn't

numerals or symbols, which means, as Carlton Larson points out,

Adolf Hitler, which Heath and Deborah Campbell

made headlines in 2009 after a bakery refused to put his name

on a cake for his third birthday. Shortly afterwards

child welfare officials took him and his other controversially named siblings away

from their parents and place them in foster care,

where they remain to this day. His parents are self-identified

New Jersey, the latter of which makes them New Jerseyans.

If they lived in Kansas they'd be Kansan, if they lived in New York they'd

be New Yorkers, if they lived in Utah they'd be

Utahns. A name based on where something is from

is called a demonym, which means that even names

have names. An endonym is a name given to a place

by those who live there. An exonym is the name given to a place by those

who live elsewhere. But my favorite name for a name

is an autoantonym. A word that can mean the

opposite of its other meaning. For example,

You can track the distribution of your last name across the entire

Or visualize the popularity of the US' top

1000 names over time. Studies have shown that your name

The name–letter effect is a phenomenon in which people prefer

which contain letters similar to the letters inside their own

name. Measuring a person's preference for such letters

has been shown to be a good gauge of self-esteem.

Richard Wiseman's Quirkology is a great read on this topic. He mentions

"alphabetical discrimination." People with last names that begin with the letter

near the end of the alphabet tend to rate themselves

significantly less successful than people with names that begin with the

beginning of the alphabet. Perhaps because

all their lives they've been put on the bottom

of lists. Also fascinating is the fact that men and women with