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January 28, 2011

Strange But True!

Q. If you do something so special they want to name a bridge after you or a stadium or type of car..., which of your names are they NOT LIKELY to choose?

A. Many people have had words coined after their last or first names, but only Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) — barrister, reporter, writer of detective fiction — had his middle name used, says Anu Garg in “The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two.” He wrote “clerihews,” or humorous pseudobiographical verses of four lines of uneven length, with rhyme scheme A-A-B-B, and the first line containing the name of the subject.


 
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