I believe the weekly magazine, New Scientist, may have coined the phrase "nominative determinism" in its light-hearted column at the back. I came across a lovely example of it last week, when my son Cameron and I went on a conducted tour of the the Jaguar production lines at Castle Bromwich in Birmingham.
Our amiable and very knowledgeable guide had worked in the car industry for most of his working life. He told us that his first job had been hanging doors on cars on an Austin production line, and at the end of the tour, when I looked at his name label, it read: Austin Dawes. He assured us that it was not a joke.
Our amiable and very knowledgeable guide had worked in the car industry for most of his working life. He told us that his first job had been hanging doors on cars on an Austin production line, and at the end of the tour, when I looked at his name label, it read: Austin Dawes. He assured us that it was not a joke.
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