It gets even better. He used to teach WILD 420 Ornithology which was known for being a "bird course" (slang for easy course). https://www.mcgill.ca/study/2012-2013/courses/wild-420

That's an Aptronym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym

Is there a term for this kind of internet comment section correction? Like "it's an aptronym, not nominative determinism", or "it's an initialism, not an acronym".

(I'm not saying this to be snarky towards you or anything like that, and I personally appreciate seeing such corrections. Genuinely just curious if there's a term for this specific sort of thing, since it's common on HN and reddit.)

I'm not sure, I didn't see the nominative determinism comment until I posted my own link.

From my POV, I like seeing comments that facilitates exploration into an observation so was happy to share the link!

People do seem to gravitate/grow into their names. The one that stands out to me is Schwarzschild radius: schwarz == black.

Watching a lot of science/astronomy related content on YouTube I've noticed that on most of the english-speaking channels the name ist pronounce wrongly (schwarz-child, instead of schwarz-chilled) PBS spacetime does it right though.

Schild means shield btw. I had a friend with a schild name and for the longest time pronounced it "child" without them correcting me. I felt so embarrassed when I realized it means shield.

That's how the ending is usually pronounced in English though. Consider how Americans say "Rothschild".

Rothschild means "red shield", for anyone curious.

The full etymology:

>The name is derived from the German zum rothen Schild (with the old spelling "th"), meaning "at the red shield", in reference to the house where the family lived for many generations (in those days houses were designated not by numbers but by signs displaying different symbols or colours).

Yes but I'm swedish and should know better! :D

Good to know. Makes it even more interesting: the event horizon we can't see past.

Also in sports: https://xkcd.com/2022/

I laughed at the fictional dentist supposedly named "Crentist" in the Office, then I remembered the largest scam in recent history was by Bernie Madoff.

No kidding a CPA in my hometown went to prison for fraud named…

Cheatham

He must have been affiliated with the brokerage firm Duewee, Cheatem & Howe...

Took a series 7 course [stockbroker license] few years back, I remember that was the teachers goto example firm.

Greico...John Thomas... fun times, then I realized I have a soul that prevents me from scamming people out of their last cent just to make a payment on a Benz or pay for weekly supply of hookers and cocaine...

Only way to win the game, is not to play.

Ah, yes, the Car Talk show’s preferred firm! They retained Hugh Louis Dewey as their Chief Legal Counsel. The full staff list is linked below. And just because I can’t help giving a small sample, here are there defense lawyers:

  Defense Attorney Justin Volk V
  Defense Attorney II Heronimus B. Blind
  Defense Attorney III Donnatella Dicoppas
  Defense Attorney IV Gil T. Azell

https://www.cartalk.com/content/staff-credits

Our local used-car dealer is Dick Witham.

> then I remembered the largest scam in recent history was by Bernie Madoff.

I don't get it?

Pronounced “Made off”

Bernie Madoff with all their money.

I knew a real dentist named Rex Pain. Rex means King. He was the king of pain.

In Austin, TX, there's a urologist famously named Richard Chopp, and his colleagues at the same clinic all have similarly relevant names, like Stephen Hardeman.

My first name is Reed - guess what my favourite thing to do is?

Play the saxophone?

Walking through shallow bodies of water?

Walking towards deer backwards, actually!