Comments on: Eggcorns, Mondegreens and Charactonyms http://www.thejanuarist.com/eggcorns-mondegreens-and-charactonyms/ PAST vs PRESENT Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:01:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Carl Morris http://www.thejanuarist.com/eggcorns-mondegreens-and-charactonyms/#comment-1601 Carl Morris Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:14:26 +0000 http://www.thejanuarist.com/?p=1124#comment-1601 On charactonyms / aptronyms, New Scientist used to regularly publish examples of nominative determinism - the theory that people are led to jobs which resemble their names. The first ever example was an academic paper on incontinence in the British Journal of Urology written by J.W. Splatt and D. Weedon. On charactonyms / aptronyms, New Scientist used to regularly publish examples of nominative determinism – the theory that people are led to jobs which resemble their names.

The first ever example was an academic paper on incontinence in the British Journal of Urology written by J.W. Splatt and D. Weedon.

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