Upvote!
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Codpiece@feddit.uk to Nominative Determinism@feddit.ukEnglish ·
edit-2
9 days ago

Ros Canter (left in photo), British equestrian

en.wikipedia.org

external-link
message-square
9
fedilink
29
external-link

Ros Canter (left in photo), British equestrian

en.wikipedia.org

Codpiece@feddit.uk to Nominative Determinism@feddit.ukEnglish ·
edit-2
9 days ago
message-square
9
fedilink
Ros Canter - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
external-link
alert-triangle
You must log in or # to comment.
  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    8 days ago

    Badminton Horse Trials

    holy shit if she can teach a horse to use a badminton racket she deserves all the medals she can get.

    • Codpiece@feddit.ukOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      8 days ago

      It’s nothing to do with the sport, it’s where they decide if the horse is guilty or not.

      • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        8 days ago

        admittedly the horse does look sus

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    9 days ago

    I don’t get it.

    • smeg@feddit.ukM
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      9 days ago

      “Canter” is one of the ways a horse runs

      • altasshet@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        8 days ago

        And “Ross” is a way of saying horse in German.

        • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          8 days ago

          Pferd? EDIT: oh wow : https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ross#German

    • call_me_xale@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      8 days ago

      A “canter” is a particular horse gait.

    • klemptor@startrek.website
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      8 days ago

      Cantering is the horse gait between trotting and galloping

Nominative Determinism@feddit.uk

nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk

Nominative determinism is the hypothesis that people tend to gravitate towards areas of work that fit their names. The term was first used in the magazine New Scientist in 1994, after the magazine’s humorous “Feedback” column noted several studies carried out by researchers with remarkably fitting surnames. These included a book on polar explorations by Daniel Snowman and an article on urology by researchers named Splatt and Weedon. These and other examples led to light-hearted speculation that some sort of psychological effect was at work.

This is a community for posting real-world examples of names that by coincidence are funny in context. A link to the article or site is preferable, as well as a screenshot of the funny name if it’s not in the headline. Try not to repost, and keep it fun!

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 1 user / day
  • 18 users / week
  • 434 users / month
  • 609 users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 944 subscribers
  • 83 Posts
  • 65 Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • smeg@feddit.uk
  • BE: 0.19.6
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org