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Here is the link to today's column. I am really miffed at the headline writer, because the whole point of the column is that I think it's more accurate to say Jackson and Sophia are "on top" than Liam and Emma:

http://www.omaha.com/living/evans-liam-emma-top-list-of-baby-names-but-others/article_e84ca07c-1eb6-5dc5-9a92-733f89434233.html

 

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23 hours ago, Ormond said:

Here is the link to today's column. I am really miffed at the headline writer, because the whole point of the column is that I think it's more accurate to say Jackson and Sophia are "on top" than Liam and Emma:

http://www.omaha.com/living/evans-liam-emma-top-list-of-baby-names-but-others/article_e84ca07c-1eb6-5dc5-9a92-733f89434233.html

 

My father was named Noach. (The c is silent) Until just in the last few years I could count on the thumbs of one hand any other Noahs I had ever heard of. Noah Beery is the only one. Now I hear the name everywhere. My dad would be happy. He always wondered what his mother was thinking naming him Noach.

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6 hours ago, Ormond said:

Here's the link to today's column, about one of the more common male names I hadn't written about yet:

http://www.omaha.com/living/evans-from-roman-origins-a-name-that-still-hits-the/article_54dd2333-9670-5e39-9078-f06f4694140a.html

Apparently I am unable to read this anymore because of GDPR

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17 hours ago, Maltaran said:

Apparently I am unable to read this anymore because of GDPR

I had to Google GDPR to know what you were referring to, and I still don't know why it affects this since what I read talked about its application to banking and financial sites, not newspapers.

But if you send me your email address through a personal message I will send you a copy of what I wrote.

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I suspect I have an idea what's going on. GDPR places restrictions on transferring personal data outside of the EU, and cookies do just that. It's easy enough to comply (this website does it), but it might be that the Omaha W-H has decided it's not worth the bother for the small amount of EEA traffic it gets.

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Here's the link to today's column. Sorry I did not have room to mention more famous real men named Owen, such as author Owen Wister.

http://www.omaha.com/living/evans-owen-owes-its-recent-popularity-to-tv-movie-stars/article_b0261ab7-216e-56b5-9359-2d6722a8cfe0.html

As La Albearceleste surmised, the Omaha World-Herald has decided it's not worth it to comply with EU rules for now. Anyone who is blocked from the World-Herald site who wants to read my columns can send me their email address in a personal message and I will be happy to send them a copy of what I originally wrote. 

 

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On 6/5/2018 at 4:00 PM, Ormond said:

Here's the link to today's column, about one of the more common male names I hadn't written about yet:

http://www.omaha.com/living/evans-from-roman-origins-a-name-that-still-hits-the/article_54dd2333-9670-5e39-9078-f06f4694140a.html

I'm only interested about what name is in question? Is it Roman?

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Here's the link to today's column. It's interesting how Thomas has been more popular in the UK than the USA for most of the past 300 years -- despite Tom Sawyer. :)

https://www.omaha.com/living/evans-there-s-no-doubting-thomas-enduring-popularity-as-a/article_91a48a30-1a0b-5cb2-9a14-8f0c81712036.html

 

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Here's the link to today's column. Phyllis was one of the first classical Greek names adopted into modern English and was even among the top 50 names for English girls born in the 1600s.

https://www.omaha.com/living/cleveland-evans-phyllis-flourished-thanks-to-poetry-prose-and-tv/article_35c3cfc1-d767-5986-bd39-8b8f01f68273.html

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Sorry I've been busy and travelling to Tennessee to visit my mother -- Here is the link to Tuesday's column. I enjoyed discovering how all the old movies affected the use of Rachel. 

https://www.omaha.com/living/evans-rachel-is-a-name-with-a-crazy-rich-history/article_872b0ac7-64ad-5f98-a464-3ab705752c23.html

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On ‎7‎/‎31‎/‎2018 at 9:44 AM, Ormond said:

Here's the link to today's column. I had no idea before researching this one that The Princess Bride was such a "thing" for geeky Millennials. 

https://www.omaha.com/living/evans-wesley-has-worldly-appeal-as-baby-name/article_a5b44bc4-4681-5074-bd0a-034e5cd6f74b.html

It's a "thing" for geeky Boomers too!  :)  So many quotable lines.

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Here is the link to today's column.

https://www.omaha.com/living/evans-swahili-names-like-taraji-sanaa-see-swell-in-popularity/article_fe04b96d-268d-5728-82ef-27df2df1321c.html

Of course there are some celebrity names like "Kanye" which are often claimed to be Swahili but really are not. Also while researching this article I discovered that the common explanation for "Jelani" as meaning "mighty" or "great" in Swahili is almost surely incorrect. Jelani is likely the Swahili form of the Arabic name Gilani or Jilani, which is from the surname of a famous 12th century Sufi saint, referring to his coming from the Iranian province of Gilan along the south shore of the Caspian Sea. 

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21 hours ago, Ormond said:

I discovered that the common explanation for "Jelani" as meaning "mighty" or "great" in Swahili is almost surely incorrect. Jelani is likely the Swahili form of the Arabic name Gilani or Jilani, which is from the surname of a famous 12th century Sufi saint, referring to his coming from the Iranian province of Gilan along the south shore of the Caspian Sea.  

Quite interesting, Ormond.

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Here's today's column. I was rather surprised to see how much more common Randall and Randolph were in the USA than Britain in the 19th century. Of course the British think it's amazing that Americans named so many boys "Randy" because the word "randy" is a common one that means "lecherous" or "over-sexed" in England. Although found in unabridged dictionaries in the USA, "randy" was not a common word in American English until recently, and "horny" and "dirty" were the slang terms most often used for the concept. Actually I was in college before I knew that "randy" could mean "lecherous", and the person who told me this was my friend Randall "Randy" Wallace, now the famous screenwriter/director -- and back then he told me it was "Australian slang".  :)

https://www.omaha.com/living/evans-evolution-of-randall-has-spanned-multiple-generations/article_cb20b73d-52ac-5ce8-81d4-c98cef44c98a.html

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