Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.
A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.
We were taking some photos one day in front of one of these old antebellum homes, and one of us said the word. And we all kind of stopped and said, 'That could be a name!' ... It just feels kind of country and nostalgic.
There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.
Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger.
I don't like names that are clever or made-up sounding.
Sound is the vocabulary of nature.
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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