标题: A Man Without Firsr or Middle Name for 19 Years [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 5-10-2010 11:17 标题: A Man Without Firsr or Middle Name for 19 Years 本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布
Erik Eckholm, What’s in a Name? A Lot, as It Turns Out. New York Times, May
10, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/us/10name.html?scp=2&sq=maximus&st=cse
My comment:
(a) This is a story about a man with last name only for his first 19 years.
You may just read the first 10 paragraphs and the last three.
(b) The noun "maximus" is Latin for "the greatest."
(c) The female given name "Maxine" is modern creation by adding the female
ending -ine to Max.