Re: A gallery of good names

From: Jeanne Fugina (missmud@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 07:26:34 PDT


> Scott,
>     Thanks much for your help and contribution to my project.  Aren't
> Dicken's names the best?  However, we can  be assured that any boy that we
> know is VERY glad that his parents never pinned the name of Melchisidech
on
> him.  Thanks, again.  Jeanne
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Scott Alt <sealt69@YAHOO.COM>
> To: <BOZ@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 4:13 PM
> Subject: A gallery of good names
>
>
> > Dickens's novels in fact provide a gallery of good
> > names:
> >
> > Alfred Jingle (_Pickwick Papers_)
> > Mr. Bumble (_Oliver Twist_)
> > Wackford Squeers (_Nicholas Nickleby_)
> > Samuel Brass (_The Old Curiosity Shop_)
> > Sim Tappertit (_Barnaby Rudge_)
> > Zephaniah Scadder (_Martin Chuzzlewit_)
> > Rev. Melchisidech Howler (_Dombey and Son_)
> > Mr. Creakle (_David Copperfield_)
> > "Fascination Fledgby" (_Bleak House_)
> > Mr. M'Choakumchild (_Hard Times_)
> > Mrs. F's Aunt (_Little Dorrit_)
> > The Vengeance (_A Tale of Two Cities_)
> > Uncle Pumblechook (_Great Expectations_)
> > Mr. Podsnap (_Our Mutual Friend_)
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Darby Higgs <darby.higgs@ARTS.MONASH.EDU.AU>
> > wrote:
> > > What about Dick Swiveller in Old Curiosity Shop,
> > > Murdstone in David Copperfield
> > >
> > > > Jeanne Fugina wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >     I am giving a program regarding names and
> > > naming, "What's In A
> > > > Name?"  (Thank you William Shakespeare.)  However,
> > > I have always felt
> > > > that some of the most clever, interesting, unusual
> > > and often telling
> > > > names were devised by Charles Dickens.  Since I
> > > have a short memory
> > > > and a short amount of time to finish this project,
> > > could you all help
> > > > me gather a list of Dicken's most memorable names
> > > from his vast
> > > > literary works?   Thanks,  Jeanne
> > >
> > > --
> > > Darby Higgs
> > > Australian APEC Study Centre
> > > Tel 61 3 9903 8021
> > > http://www.apec.org.au
> >
> >
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