What is nominative determinism? Examples are welcome.

Stew54

It's the tendency of people to end up with a job title which suit their name. My favourite isn't a person, it's an English law firm I do business with, called Wright Hassall & Co. Jan 06 04, 4:52 AM

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A paper on incontinence in the British Journal of Urology was authored by J.W. Splatt and D. Weedon. This can work in reverse and you can get people who have names are not suitable. There was a Cardinal Sin who was Archbishop of Manila, Cheatham & Steele the American Bankers, Clayton Crooke who was a US Police chief, Hogjaw Twaddle, an American academic and R. Crumbleholme & Son who run a building and property maintainace company in Weymouth, Dorset (UK). I thought I would look some more up and found lots of examples. http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/3452/names.htm has the following: - Grant Warmbath is the manager of a family hotel in Inverness-shire. Steve Cook married Jane Best, a Tokyo restaurant owner, resulting in Jane Best Cook. The topic first popped up in a 1975 journal paper called "Put the Blame on Name" by Lawrence Casler. The author listed over a hundred examples of the phenomenon in research papers, including such winners as "Effects of tactile stimulation" by a fellow by the name of Finger, "Sequelae of orgasm in male guinea pigs" by a Mr Grunt, "Animal behaviour" by Lionel Tiger and Robin Fox, "Intra-uterine contraceptive devices" by Gamble, "Juvenile delinquency" by Lively and Reckless, and the lovely "Effects of parental pressure on school performance" by a person called Mumpower. Jan 06 04, 6:25 AM