Aptonyms+C–D

Aptonyms C–D
Contributors' initials are included below, with their full names on the Contributors page.

Cash, Iain
Iain Cash has been a cashier since 1992 in a Salvation Army officein Paris, France.(IC ) [He is the only one to have his name at the same time in the English list and in the French list, for being English, working in Paris and carrying an aptonymic name.]

Cashman, Brian
The New York Yankees General Manager is named Brian **Cashman**, a fitting name for a team that typically has the highest (or second-highest) payroll of any Major League Baseball team (more than $100 million). He was profiled in the Montreal Gazette on Wednesday, October 31, 2001. (AB )

===Cattle, Stephen === Associate professor Stephen **Cattle**, from the University of Sydney Faculty of Agriculture. (GJO)

GJO reports that the **Chalmers** run [|hypnotherapy training courses] amongst other alternative health treatments.
 * Chalmers, Susan and Dr David **

Champagne, Luscious
"Last week in the LA Times "California" section (I think it appeared on Thursday or Friday) there was a story about the program that takes drunk drivers to the county morgue to scare them. One of the participants was "Luscious **Champagne**" (<span class="wiki_link_ext">NKC )

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Chipman, Barry
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Oz contributor <span class="wiki_link_ext">GJO writes, "I've just confirmed the existence of Barry **Chipman**, the Tasmanian State Co-ordinator of the Australian timber industry funded front group, Timber Communities Australia. He was interviewed on Australia's ABC Radio National program, The World Today...Tasmania's forests are logged to make, among other things, wood chips!!!

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> Chopp, Richard
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Dr. Richard (Dick) **Chop** was <span class="wiki_link_ext">JB2 's urologist in Austin Texas. Thankfully, he didn't have to!

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Chui, Dr. Donald
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Contibutor <span class="wiki_link_ext">PC2 found this excellent [|advert] for dentist Dr. Donald Chui.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Cock, Everrard
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Nominative determinism (Finding a vocation to fit your name) doesn't always work: Everrard Cock is in fact a vet, not a sex worker! (He's listed in the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Directory of members.) (<span class="wiki_link_ext">AM )

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Cockburn, Alden
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Contributor <span class="wiki_link_ext">MK writes "A few years ago, I saw an advertisement for a local urologist who specialized in vasectomy reversals. His name is Dr. Alden **Cockburn**. I had to look this up in the phone book to make sure it was correct. I also found a website with a more recent article about Dr. Cockburn moving to Taos, New Mexico. The article insists the name is pronounced, 'co-burn'." [Hey, MK: here in Canada we have a great musician named Bruce Cockburm, and we procounce his name the same way as Alden does.]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Comfort, Samuel
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Dr. Samuel Comfort, Dentist, has been comforting his patients for many years now, in the town of Haddonfield, New Jersey, USA. (<span class="wiki_link_ext">AB )

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Constable, Scott
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">According to <span class="wiki_link_ext">LT, there is a police officer in Vancouver named Scott Constable, whom one presumably would address as "Constable Constable".

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Courage, Trent
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">In Oakville, Ontario, Trent Courage and his brother are co-organizers of the annual New Year's Day Polar Bear Swim. (<span class="wiki_link_ext">DC )

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Court, Margaret
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Australian contributor, GJO, remembers Margaret **Court**, a retired former World No. 1 tennis player from Australia. In 1970, she became the first woman during the open era and the second woman in history to win all four Grand Slam tournament singles titles in the same calendar year.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Cowburn, David
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Sorry, but there is no easy way to put this. CRE Group's combustion labs have been looking into the problem of trying to dispose of our embarrassing mountain of bovine carcasses. (due to mad cow's disease) One suggested solution has been to dry and squash them into fuel pellets for industrial solid fuel boilers. Mad? Surely not, when the man in charge of their testing laboratory is none other than David Cowburn. (reprinted, with permission, from //New Scientist Magazine//, 25 July, 1998.) (<span class="wiki_link_ext">AB )

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Cull, Gerard
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">TM2 writes "I needed to have a tree removed from the front yard of our house and someone recommended "Razorback Tree Removals". The owner's name is Gerard **Cull**.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Current, A. and D.
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">TM reports that growing up in Tonogany, Ohio, he recalls an electrical appliance shop operated by the brothers A. and D. **Current**. I wonder if their middle initials were "C"?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Cutmore, Stephen
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">SO reports a tree surgeon in North Wales named Stephen **Cutmore**.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Daley, Paul
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">A national affairs editor for Aussie newspaper, The Bulletin. (GJO)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">D'Eath, Doctor
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">When working in Britain I numbered among colleagues one surgeon **D'Eath** who worked with an anaesthetist called **Coffin**. In Jamaica my wife's hairdresser is Miss **Baldy**. (reprinted, with permission, from //New Scientist Magazine,// 25 July, 1998.) (<span class="wiki_link_ext">EB )

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">D'Eath, Joel
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">This is a first for this lis: A paramedic named Joel **D'Eath**, from Toronto, Ontario, saw our list and contributed his own name. Welcome Joel!

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Death, John
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> In 1989, John **Death** was the official spokeperson for the Australian Civil Aviation Authority, the agency which investigates plane crashes. (//The Gazette//, Montréal, April 18, 1989) (<span class="wiki_link_ext">AB )

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Death, Doctor
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">NM writes "I once worked with a doctor named Dr. **Death**. Not the most positive name for someone in his profession. I notice this phenomena a lot actually. Didn't know there was a special name."

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">De Cock, Dr. Kevin
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Dr Kevin De **Cock** [|starts] as the New HIV/AIDS Director at WHO. (<span class="wiki_link_ext">RS )

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> Dent, Doctor
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">KP2 writes,"My dentist in the '60s was Dr. **Dent**, a dentist in the St. Louis, MO area. There is a chiropractor in Tacoma, WA, named **Bonz**."

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Divine, Leonard
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Leonard **Divine** is a rabbi. (Frank Nuessel, The Study of Names, Greenwood Press 1992, p. 42) (<span class="wiki_link_ext">AB )

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Dobson, J.A.W.
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">DC went to the same dentist, John Dobson, of Dartmouth Nova Scotia, for more then 20 years before realizing that his middle initials were A.W.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Doctor, Marcellene
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Marcellene Doctor, dermatologist, Fall River, Massachusetts, USA. Source: Telephone Directory, New Bedford, MA, USA, March 2000. (<span class="wiki_link_ext">KML )

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Dollar, David
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">TB from Australia sends: "ABC (Australian Broadcasting Company) Lateline programme on 2007-03-20 interviewed American David **Dollar**, the China Manager of the World Bank.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Dolittle Painting
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">TB from Australia reports several aptonymic businesses: **Dolittle** Painting, Sleep's Plumbing [don't get this one], and **McLean**'s Cleaning Services.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Dollar, Creflo A.
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">While channel-surfing one Sunday morning, <span class="wiki_link_ext">DC came across the TV evangelist Creflo A. **Dollar**. True to form, the show ended with the offer of various Christian goods and services available by credit card through a toll-free number

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Dolphin, Professor William F.
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Professor William F. **Dolphin** of Boston University is a researcher in animal bioacoustics, especially marine mammal sonar, and is a frequent presenter at the [|Animal Bioacoustics]sessions at meetings of the Acoustical Society of America, where <span class="wiki_link_ext">DC has heard him speak.

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Doty, Dr. Kelly **
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Another anti-aptonym found by GJO is [|Dr Kelly **Doty**], Clinical Psychologist at Hana Community Health Center Hawaiian Island.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">MB writes: "Last year, as I was reading various documents concerning oceanography, I came across a list of articles published by a certain Mr. Ken **Drinkwater**, originally from Nova Scotia, researcher for Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Through Google you may easily access a page devoted to his work."

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Dunn, Will
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">RK tells us of a lawyer he encountered named [|Will Dunn] in Greenville, South Carolina.

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