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One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams's term for people whose names were curiously appropriate to, or provided ironic comment on, their occupations.

Timothy Noah

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Zu meinen lebenslangen Hobbys gehörte das Sammeln von "Aptronyms" - die Bezeichnung des Zeitungskolumnisten Franklin P. Adams für Personen, deren Namen seltsamerweise ihren Berufen angemessen waren oder ironische Kommentare dazu gaben.

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