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Letter: Naming high

Published 9 January 1999

From David Rowland

No American parent would give their child the name Jefferson without some
thought that the child might become president
(Letters, 28 November, p 58).

I think the proper phrase for this intent is “determinative nominism”.

Berkeley, California

Issue no. 2168 published 9 January 1999

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