Bible Belt Onomastics or Some Curiosities of Anti-Pedobaptist Nomenclature

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ID10305251
AuthorsThomas Pyles (corresponding author)
Year1959
Volume7
Issue2
Pages84-100
Publication date1959-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNames (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0027-7738 • E-ISSN: 1756-2279
PublisherUniversity Library System, University of Pittsburgh (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1179/nam.1959.7.2.84
OpenAlexW2078352167
LanguageEN
Citations received9

a former teacher and the mother of five fair daughters, graduated from Oklahoma City University.At the same time one of the aforesaid daughters, Norvetta, graduated from Oklahoma A. and M. University with a fine arts degree in piano and voice; a second daughter, Yerdith, graduated from Classen High School in Oklahoma City, where she distinguished herself as a clarinet player in the school band and as a member of the swimming team; a third, Arthetta, finished her work at Wilson grade school; and a fourth, Marlynne, did not graduate from anywhere, but got into the newspaper anyway.Mother Hoyette's fifth daughter, Wilbarine, had already graduated in 1943 from Oklahoma City University and married a man prosaically named John.Even in Oklahoma such a clutch of euphoniously named females as Hoyette, Norvetta, Yerdith, Arthetta, Marlynne, and Wilbarine seems to have been noteworthy, if not the actual occasion for the newsworthiness of the White family, for the feature writer in the Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman (May 19, 1947, p. 1) asks, t:t:Wondering where they got those names?"and goes on to give Mrs. White's explanation:When my mother saw I looked so much like my father, she made a girl's name out of the family name Hoyt and called me Hoyette.That started the names

Biology · Linguistics · Nomenclature · Onomastics · Taxonomy (biology · Zoology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research · Philosophy

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