"Trumpery first appeared in English in the mid-15th century with the meanings "deceit or fraud" ... and "worthless nonsense." Less than 100 years later, it was being applied to material objects of little or no value."
Merriam-Webster
#NominativeDeterminism
The Chief Executive is seriously called Mr Boss?
#NominativeDeterminism
I've just noticed there's a physiotherapist at my GP's called Liz Creak. #NominativeDeterminism
"Andy Ogles".
I'll bet he does!
What a peculiarly fitting example of #NominativeDeterminism for a staunch follower of the rapist president.
I wonder how the new UK Military Attache to the United Arab Emirates was selected for the job?
He is called Sandy Sandilands ...
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(via a friend who lives in the #Sandpit )
@chartlifepod.bsky.social Slowly catching up. Can we just pause to note that Darren House of X-Press 2 is excellent #nominativedeterminism
(My fave track is Smoke Machine, and yes @edbiggs.bsky.social it is I who bought the other copy of Muzukizum)
Today at our (brilliant) #futurecork event I met the charming Paolo Carbone whose job involved sustainable travelโฆ ie decarbonising travel. Another one for the list #nominativedeterminism
Someone call Popbitch, the BBC just aired a package on overfishing mackerel by Jonah Fisher #nominativedeterminism
Great Scott! I don't know why but that's one of those names
#NominativeDeterminism but in Scott's case it is really abstract, or something
Screengrab from a BBC news story. Text reading: "George Lusty, director of enforcement at Ofcom, said it had "been clear" adult sites needed to deploy robust age checks to protect children in the UK form seeing porn."
Heartening to see #NominativeDeterminism in work allocation at Ofcom ...
#Badenoch lives up/down to the first syllable of her name.
#nominativedeterminism
Butler OH mayor caught sniffing girls underwear
#nominativedeterminism
A MAGA mayor in Butler, OH, Wesley Dingus, got caught sniffing girl's underwear (additional local sources say it is his stepdaughter's)
What's the opposite of #NominativeDeterminism ?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@regehr/116069851010271002
#nominativeDeterminism #nominativeDeterminismWatch
Local news website: "Green city councillor Lois Muddiman" ๐ช๐งโ๐พ
#NominativeDeterminism
Excellent shop. I went to a talk on compost there - by Charles Dowding. I thought Toppings the perfect place for compost expertise #nominativedeterminism
"With a name like Anne Historic-Document, she was destined to become an archivist" #NominativeDeterminism
@chrislochery.bsky.social Someone tell #popbitch #nominativedeterminism
And now I have a new vocabulary word. Thank you! #NominativeDeterminism
Greg Bovino is a great nominative-determinism name: Bovine-o implies that he's easily _cowed_
#nominativeDeterminismWatch #nominativeDeterminism
Text-based advertisement in an almost-square format with the wording, "N.S. Hamburger, oldest established and largest kosher butcher in North London. 82 Green Lanes, N.16., Phone: Dalston 2099".
Nice bit of nominative determinism from my old stomping grounds in Stoke Newington, Northeast London.
#Hamburger #Butcher #NominativeDeterminism #StokeNewington #London #N16
Hat-trick for #nominativedeterminism from the panel at BBC Gardeners Question Time: Anne Swithinbank, Pippa Greenwood and Matthew Pottage
Did you know that a top BBC stuntman in the late Seventies and early Eighties is Stuart Fell? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_... #nominativedeterminism #doctorwho #blakes7
Rooting for #NominativeDeterminism to work its magic! But the Lawyer lawyer is much more likely considering how many lawyers and relatively few judges there are out there.
Kenneth Gainwell #NominativeDeterminism
