Quotes About Naming convention

Then what do we call you?" another of the heat forms asked. "We are Rutan." "Our species need something a little more particular," the first heat form of the Time Lord said. "I think we'll call you Fred, for ease of reference.

Tribe cats are named after the first thing their mother sees, but I thing this would lead to a lot of kits being named 'wall of cave', 'side of cave' and 'floor of cave

Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.

All of my horses are called Roach.

The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious.

According to tradition, they are named for the first thing their mother sees when they are born, although to my mind that would lead to a lot of kits being called Roof of Cave or Wall of Cave or Floor of Cave.

I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.

Por ejemplo, la superpartícula del electrón se llama «selectrón»; la del quark, «squark»; y la del leptón (como el electrón o el neutrino) se denomina «sleptón».

By convention, moons are named for Greek personalities in the life of the Greek counterpart to the Roman god after whom the planet itself was named.

In Mexico, we usually go by three names—first name, father's surname, and mother's surname. We shorten that to first and last name in los Estados Unidos.

Yes, I said. My name is seven-five-nine-nine-three-nine-ex-dash-one. Junior.

His name was Winchester. John Winchester.

It would be a mistake to name them for qualities we think they have," Samuel said. "We might be wrong—so wrong. Maybe it would be good to give them a high mark to shoot at—a name to live up to. The man I'm named for had his name called clear by the Lord God, and I've been listening all my life. And once or twice I've thought I heard my name called—but not clear, not clear.