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The November name game: Onomastics and elections

By Erin Milnes
October 26, 2018
How Brands Are Built

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How Brands Are Built podcast features Laurel Sutton 6/11/18

How Brands Are Built podcast features Laurel Sutton 6/11/18Midterms are fast approaching, and all the candidates have at least one thing in common: they have names, many you haven’t seen before. Can the branch of linguistics that deals with names, onomastics, help us predict election results? That is, do some candidates have advantages simply because of their name? …

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