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Here is the link to today's column:
https://omaha.com/life-entertainment/cleveland-evans-spider-servant-or-standish-miles-popularity-defies-time/article_2fae90d8-ff2e-11ed-bdf0-57e5d888051f.html
I think it's interesting how the Hollywood image of Miles seems to have changed over the last 40 years or so. It seems to me that until recently most of the characters named Miles were villains. Now that it's booming as a baby name in the USA, Miles has become a name for heroes.
https://omaha.com/life-entertainment/cleveland-evans-spider-servant-or-standish-miles-popularity-defies-time/article_2fae90d8-ff2e-11ed-bdf0-57e5d888051f.html
I think it's interesting how the Hollywood image of Miles seems to have changed over the last 40 years or so. It seems to me that until recently most of the characters named Miles were villains. Now that it's booming as a baby name in the USA, Miles has become a name for heroes.
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Most interesting, as usual! Thank you. I've sent a quote to an acquaintance here in South Africa who has an eight-year-old son named Milo. This was a delivery-table inspiration: they'd practically picked something like Jeremy or Joshua, when she made her big announcement and surprised one and all. Most people associate Milo - here, anyway - with a malted-chocolate powder that dissolves in hot or cold milk and is liked by small children. I was particularly interested in the possible link to 'milu', of course; I'd always assumed that 'miles' became 'Miles' with a couple of hiccups along the way. 'Gracious' is a whole lot better in the 21st century.
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