Category Archives: Nomenclature Consultants

I’ve always ‘collected’ – that’s to say, remembered – unusual names and finally found a use for them! I love names; sad to say, I really enjoy reading lists of them, for me it’s like casting an eye over a … Continue reading →

“I’m big on names.” J.K. Rowling, British Author

A good article on the naturalness of naming systems: Cecil Brown, an anthropologist at Northern Illinois University who has studied folk taxonomies in 188 languages, has found that people recognize the same basic categories repeatedly, including fish, birds, snakes, mammals, … Continue reading →