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in reply to a message by Kai
I'm not into it -- partly because of the excessive humbleness of the root 'pot' which Chrisell points out, and partly because old-profession-surname '-er' names make chilly, distant sounding, hypermasculine (beyond butch, to the point of "I am a rock, I am an island") first names to me (Parker, Tanner, Carter, Cooper, Sawyer, Webster, Booker etc). They fail the 'boom boom test,' near the bottom of the curve. Sorry. It could work as a middle name.
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Har!
Love your analysis of the problem with profession surname-names. They are very distant, aren't they? I'd add that they are frequently a tad pretentious, too, although Potter - in light of all the negative derivations of its root - doesn't quite make it to pretentious.
Love your analysis of the problem with profession surname-names. They are very distant, aren't they? I'd add that they are frequently a tad pretentious, too, although Potter - in light of all the negative derivations of its root - doesn't quite make it to pretentious.
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