In Sweden, if your name is Sven Andersson and there is a person of interest (for any reason) that has the same name as you, there is a slightly affectionate word you can use where you say that this person (that you often don't know at all) is your namne (namn means name).  Is there a similar word in English, and how does the usage differ, if at all?
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I believe it's a common practice in some communities to name children after their grandparents or parents or relatives and sometimes even friends and popular people. Places, roads, streets etc., get named after famous people, too. Many inventions and discoveries have been named after people who invented or discovered them.  But I am not yet aware of a term that refers to the person whose name is given to people, places or objects this way. Is there a suitable word to fill in the blank below?     They named their son after the famous football player, David Beckham.      David Beckham is .......... of their son.
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When I start a sentence with words like "someone" or "somebody", I don't know how to choose the right pronoun at the end of the sentence.  Examples:      If anybody asks you about the money, tell (Him - Her - It - Them) that it is in my bank account.     I felt that somebody was in the garden but I did not see (Him - Her - It - Them).     Speaker 1: A friend of mine helped me a lot.      Speaker 2: You should thank (Him - Her - It - Them).     Congratulations on your new baby! What's (His - Her - Its - Their) name?    Those are the cases or situations that I can think of. If you have any other different situations, please let me know.
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I'm a non native speaker of English. In our learning we were told that when we say hello to someone we use equivalent phrase:      How do you do?   In response we do say:     How do you do?   But I'm unsure about the usage in the USA or UK. I haven't heard from them. I'm an Indian.  Is this the correct way of introducing someone?
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I'm having 2 problems with  references  in my thesis.  First when a last name starts with letter W, it always comes at the top. Before A. But if I change the authors lastname from Wolf to Solf it works. W isn't a special character in this context... or is it?  Second problem is when I have two names like 'Ivan and Me', in the references list I get 'Ivan, A and B Me' not 'Ivan, A and Me, B'. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.  My mwe is:  \documentclass[12pt,a4paper,swedish]{report} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage[swedish]{babel} \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=biber,sorting=nyt]{biblatex}  \addbibresource{incl/tgene.bib}  \begin{document} Foo \parencite{ivan} bar \parencite{wolf}. \printbibliography[heading=bibintoc] \end{document}   And my .bib looks like:   @book{ivan,     author = {Ivan, A and Me, B},     title = {Title A},   }   @book{wolf,   author={Wolf, Ceasar},   title={Title B},   }
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I'm looking for a word to describe someone who is being used. I want a noun to describe this person, not a verb or or adjective.  Maybe like a pushover.
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"May I know your good name” is a typically Indian way of honouring another person by asking their name using an adjective like sweet, good, beautiful, et cetera. Of course there won’t ever be any bad or sour name (unless we feel it such) when asking.   If this manner of asking someone’s name is incorrect or inappropriate, then how could I make it sound more polite and amicable without negotiating the basic principles of English?
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I posted a question (  ) and they told me to post that question here. So I'm doing it.   I received answer that John doe is used as anyonymous person (victim in most cases) as placeholder for name.  Is there reason why it's "John Doe"?
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I am flying Europe to South Korea and then back for two weeks. However I might have done a stupid mistake when booking the ticket. I have two first and two last names, but when booking the ticket I omitted one of the first names while in a hurry.   So my passport reads  GIVEN NAMES: JOHN RICARD  SURNAME: ERICSON FANSON   But I booked the ticket as  First name: John  Last name: Ericson Fanson   Would this be an issue? I contacted the agency to change the name but after 3 phone calls they told me to contact the airline. However in case there's a fee, I was thinking to see if it's even necessary to make the amendment.
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I want to talk to someone about the house that my wife and I own.  Saying, for example, "My wife's and my house is awesome," sounds a bit funny to me.  What's the best way to express this?  Clarification  I'm asking specifically about the grammar of multiple nouns in possessive form.  I'm particularly curious if it's possible to do this with a first-person pronoun (me).  I am capable of rephrasing this in other ways - my question is not how to express the idea, but about this particular grammatical construction, if it is even legal.
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From the top of my head, Danish "De" (practically never used), German "Sie", Chinese "您", French "vous", Spanish "usted" are a formal way of addressing someone, especially if one isn't familiar with the addressee. Did English ever have this? It sounds as though Proto-Indo-European might have had this (based on my 4 examples), but perhaps someone can enlighten me?
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We always change subject and verb positions in whenever we want to ask a question such as "What is your name?". But when it comes to statements like the following, which form is correct?        I don't understand what are you talking about.   I don't understand what you are talking about.      Another example        Do you know what time is it?   Do you know what time it is?      Another example        Do you care how do I feel about this?   Do you care how I feel about this?
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I'm looking for a word which indicates that a person has adopted a quality suggested by their name, e.g. a person named Grace who is indeed graceful, or perhaps someone named Shepherd who has become a shepherd.  I have a strong notion that I once learned such a word, but I have forgotten it and have never re-discovered it.
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Both "govenor" and its adjective form, "gubernatorial", originally derive from the same Latin word "gubernare" (to govern) yet we use root "govern" in all contexts ("govern", "government", "governor", "governing", "governmental"...) except for "gubernatorial."  Why is "gubernatorial" the odd man out?  Also, is this just an American thing? In Australia, we also have governors but I've never heard the word used outside of the context of American politics.
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If you have a more illustrative title, feel free to change it. I searched but I couldn't find one.   This may be an easy and trivial question; if so, I am sorry.  What are the differences between these two sentences?     These two guys seem to be inseparable.      These two guys seem inseparable.   I can intuitively say that the latter one is grammatically wrong. Could you please explain?  EDIT: What I think is John Lawler's and FumbleFingers' answers are worth to read. The reason why I  noted that someone who wants to learn the answer of this question, accidentally misses FumbleFingers' answer.
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Is it correct to use Mr/Mrs with a first name?
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Yesterday, I've listened to a song called "Fear not this night". I find the syntax unusual (as a foreigner, I have never encountered it). Is it the same meaning as "Don't fear this night" ? What's the slight difference between these 2 ?  Thank you for your time.
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Currently, I'm working in an international company with many non-native speakers (so am I) but with pretty good level of English, I suppose.  I have noticed that my colleagues usually use phrase "give a hand" when asking for  help or even talking about it and seems to be avoiding the strong word "help".  It looks a bit confusing to me especially after I made people laugh when I said  "I will help you" in one of our conversations, don't remember exact context though...  So could you please describe the difference between them? And is there something wrong or hidden meaning with help-based phrase?