names

I have just read this BBC article: Celebrity names you're probably saying wrong. The celebrities in question are often Americans with non-English surnames (German, Dutch, French, Italian, etc.) and they claim that many people pronounce their name wrong. That may be true as most Americans have no...

One of the biggest cultural differences between the USA and Europe is the increasingly common use of patronyms as given names in American society, especially for boys/men. I had a look at the top 100 baby names in the USA in 2012 and found 33 boy names that were based on family names - one third...