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Parents Accidentally Substitute Similar Sounding Sibling Names More Often then Dissimilar Names [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Zenzi M. Griffin, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of AmericaZenzi M. Griffin, Thomas Wangerman, School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of AmericaWhen ...
Griffin, Zenzi M.   +1 more
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Graphic Models of Nicknames in the German-Speaking Internet-Space

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2015
The object of the study is a specific anthroponymic element of the onomastic system in German – the network name (nickname) and its representation in the German section of the Internet.
Viktoriya Viktorovna Kazyaba
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Placenames Used as Nicknames: A Study of Major League Baseball Players

open access: yesNames, 1990
From the beginning of major league baseball, at least 122 players have had nicknames taken from placenames, the majority used in the early twentieth century.
James K. Skipper
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Machine Learning Approaches to Identify Nicknames from A Statewide Health Information Exchange [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Patient matching is essential to minimize fragmentation of patient data. Existing patient matching efforts often do not account for nickname use. We sought to develop decision models that could identify true nicknames using features representing the ...
Grannis, Shaun J.   +1 more
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Som ragadványnevei

open access: yesNévtani Értesítő, 2005
Nicknames in village Som     The author examines the nicknames from the village Som, a Hungarian settlement in district Beregszász (Ukraine), near the Hungarian border.
András Kovács
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Medieval English Nicknames and Surnames with Christian Associations [PDF]

open access: yesВопросы ономастики, 2020
The article surveys Medieval English nicknames and the derivative modern surnames carrying Christian associations through their motivation. Most commonly, these nicknames would originally refer to a clerical order or office (e.g.
Vladislav V. Alpatov
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Bluetooth friendly names: bringing classic HCI questions into the mobile space [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
We explore the use of Bluetooth friendly names within the mobile space. Each Bluetooth-enabled device possesses a short string known as a 'friendly name' used to help identify a device to human users.
Byrne, Daragh   +3 more
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Looking Back to Beaver and the Head: Male College Nicknames in the 1950s

open access: yesNames, 1994
Studies of nicknames have neglected social fraternities, and most have been done by outsiders unable to assess the feelings of those who bear nicknames. I questioned members of a social fraternity to which I belonged in the late 1950s to find out how men
Thomas J. Gasque
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Nicknames among Swati clans: A socio-cultural analysis

open access: yesLiterator
Nicknames are common in African societies. In Swati families, the use of nicknames is widespread and almost every member of a family possesses one. The nicknames are given to people in addition to their personal names from a young age until adulthood ...
Muzi Matfunjwa   +2 more
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Teachers nicknames: Micro research in onomastics [PDF]

open access: yesSinteze, 2012
This paper studies teacher's nicknames in the primary school Vuk Karadžić in Kruševac gathered through a survey for which the students were requested to state a teacher‟s nickname, its originator and motivations.
Kostić-Stamenović Karolina   +1 more
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