[lit-ideas] Re: Literature and Names: Milton
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:43:07 -0500
Arrived this morning.
John
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On 2012/02/29, at 1:40, David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Non est ad astra mollis e terris via
> Romney: a kind of sheep
> Romney: a place near Hythe and Dymchurch with a famously narrow-gauge
> railroad that runs along the coast
> Mitt: had it been with one t, we'd have thought German for "with," but
> actually Willard Mitt Romney is named after a relative, Milton Romney.
> Somehow Milton becomes "Mitt."
> Newt: Gussie Fink-Nottle, newt-fancier, famously eccentric. Need we say more?
> Ron Paul: "I met him on a Monday and my heart stood still, da do ron ron"
> etc. No relation to Robert Paul one supposes .
> Richard John Santorum aka Rick: father from Riva del Garda, Italian lake
> country, where Churchill went to paint when he lost the election. Also see
> under "Google bombing"
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_%22santorum%22_neologism
>
> David Ritchie,
> Portland, Oregon
>
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