Introduction to Name-ology - What is in a name?
Let me start this here piece of writing off with a wee humorous comment (Insert Scottish accent). “Life is full of surprises, and they’re usually Zimbabwean,” says Khaya Dlanga, marketing guy for Coca Cola South Africa and a known person on South African social networks. Zimbabwe is also full of Blessings, Hastings and even Settlement’s. In Zimbabwe Lovemore has a brother named God-knows, Innocent is clever, Clever is innocent (See what I did there?) and Excellence has a sister named Progress. In case you didn’t get the joke, those are all first names. So I pose the question, what is in a name? Do you even know what your name means? In Namibia, John John is the same person, Paul is Simon’s last name and Gertrude is not the name of a vegetable. I don’t know how they do it in Zimbabwe but Name-ology in Namibia is very simple. Name-ology is the study of how names are assigned to individuals, in case you were wondering. I know what you’re thinking, Name-ology, that’s totally ficti...