namesmanship

The way names are assigned.

They are thankful for a group of advertisers dedicated to conservatism, the soft sell and generic namesmanship!

Namesmanship, as will be obvious by now, is no game. It deals with material that lies deeply in everyone and is brought to the surface by a few.

The art of naming things in order to influence the reactions of others.

The latest trick, of couse, is to exchange the "college" label for that of "university." I dare not guess what may come next in academic namesmanship.

A quality stabilization bill, a citizen might suppose, would be a bill having something to do with quality stabilization. But that's where said citizen would betray his innocence of legislative namesmanship.

The pursuit of status by having things named after oneself.

Our human trait of unwillingness to admit word ignorance often leads to survival of duplicated or spurious meanings. There is now no doubt that namesmanship has hindered the analysis of published knowledge quite seriously, and this will be outlined below

But more recent history has been marked by a departure from namesmanship to functionality — companies with names that say what they do. The result is that when the founders leave, their names do, too.

The art of name-dropping or giving the names of people who are involved with a project, in order to confer status or legitimacy.

In his preface, a scholar can practice two kinds of namesmanship. In Downward Namesmanship, the author lists those who assisted him: students, secretaries, librarians, and so on, which shows he is important enough to command such resources.

Not content with that, he offers the names of some authors who are well disposed to religion, who "say yes". (This seems to be the game of "namesmanship.")

Skill in knowing and pronouncing names.

“Namesmanship” is vital in manners; it consists of making your own name clear to other people about you while being certain you memorize their names the first time around.

In a letter to the editor referring to an earlier piece about names that were difficult to pronounce or spell (J.C. Furnas, "In the Names We Go By,", Dec. 28, 1957) the writer suggests: "How could J. C. Furnas write a piece about namesmanship and not mention Lake Chargoggaggoggmanchaugagoggchaubunagungamaug near Webster, Mass.? Sissies call it Webster Lake.