Ormond Posted May 22, 2018 Author Share Posted May 22, 2018 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Winter Rose Posted May 23, 2018 Share Posted May 23, 2018 Nice, I have been waiting for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maarsen Posted May 23, 2018 Share Posted May 23, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted June 5, 2018 Author Share Posted June 5, 2018 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maltaran Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted June 6, 2018 Author Share Posted June 6, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mormont Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted June 19, 2018 Author Share Posted June 19, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Winter Rose Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted June 23, 2018 Author Share Posted June 23, 2018 19 hours ago, Lady Winter Rose said: I'm only interested about what name is in question? Is it Roman? That column is on the name "Mark." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted July 4, 2018 Author Share Posted July 4, 2018 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted July 17, 2018 Author Share Posted July 17, 2018 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted July 31, 2018 Author Share Posted July 31, 2018 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Winter Rose Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 (edited) Oh, I love Wesley and have read Princess Bride - lovely book... I feel like rereading is in order. ....... Edited August 15, 2018 by Lady Winter Rose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted August 18, 2018 Author Share Posted August 18, 2018 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tears of Lys Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 Here's the link to today's column, one of the few I got a request from a reader for. https://www.omaha.com/living/evans-keegan-keeps-on-growing-in-popularity/article_ff783824-d246-59e7-a0df-e0a7c48c2b97.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted September 11, 2018 Author Share Posted September 11, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Winter Rose Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted September 25, 2018 Author Share Posted September 25, 2018 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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