Due to a name which is unusual in Denmark, it is speculated that he was christened on the Danish " Absalon " name day, October 30.

In a highly unusual court decision, Hearst retained the rights to the name " Katzenjammer Kids ", while creator Dirks retained the rights to the characters.

Also, if a caller has an unusual name, they will inquire about the spelling, pronunciation, and / or origin of their name.

Such etymologies often have the feel of urban legends, and can be much more colorful than the typical etymologies found in dictionaries, often involving stories of unusual practices in particular subcultures ( e. g. Oxford students from non-noble families being forced to write sine nobilitate by their name, soon abbreviated to s. nob., hence the word snob ).

The name is sort of an inside-joke with the von ( German " of " or " from " used as a nobiliary particle ), suggesting nobility and a certain arrogance, while Lars is a very common and Trier not an unusual name in Denmark.

As there was extensive mingling of Germanic tribes and Celts in this period, a Germanic or mixed Germanic-Celtic tribe led by a man with a Celtic name would be nothing unusual.

The reason for the Japanese name " harbor wave " is that sometimes a village's fishermen would sail out, and encounter no unusual waves while out at sea fishing, and come back to land to find their village devastated by a huge wave.

The practice of reusing a name was not unusual.

The unusual faintness of white dwarfs was first recognized in 1910 by Henry Norris Russell, Edward Charles Pickering, and Williamina Fleming ;< sup >, p. 1 </ sup > the name white dwarf was coined by Willem Luyten in 1922.

This genus is distinctive because of its unusual habit of " snapping division " in which the outer bacterial cell wall ruptures at a joint ( hence its name ).

Although modern word processors routinely allow that, at the time this capability was so unusual that the company's name referred to the " interleaving " of text and graphics.

( Academic theorist, artist, and performer Allucquere Rosanne Stone ( born Zelig Ben-Natan ) lived near the Heinleins at some point in the late 1960s and took the unusual name, but is rather evasive about the exact circumstances.

Sherman's unusual given name has always attracted considerable attention.

The unusual name " Junior Bird ", originally used by Emory University, derives from a famous tournament held at Berry College, the " Early Bird ", which was held early in the quiz bowl season ( though the Early Bird is open to all undergraduates ).

Some ( very rare ) nouns change gender according to the way they are used: the words amour, délice (" love " and " delight, pleasure ") are masculine in singular and feminine in plural ; the word orgue (" organ ") is masculine, but when used emphatically in plural to refer to a church organ it becomes feminine ( les grandes orgues ); the plural name gens (" people ") changes gender in a very unusual way, depending on the adjectives that are used with it.

Its unusual name, coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1858, refers to an ear severed from Robert Jenkins, captain of a British merchant ship.

Sometimes a performer adopts a name that is unusual or outlandish to attract attention.

According to Pierre-Yves Lambert, a specialist of the Gaulish language, Sequana retains QV, that is unusual in Gaulish, which is normally a P-Celtic language, but he compares with the month name EQVOS, read on the Coligny Calendar.

The name, which sounds unusual to English-speaking ears, has become a metonym for exotic places, as in the phrase " from Timbuktu to Kalamazoo ".

The border with Kent County, Delaware is rather unusual since the counties both share the same name.

The naming ceremony took place in his presence ; there was a last-minute scramble to repaint the station's new nameboards when it was discovered that the unusual dieresis in his name had been omitted ( making the French word for " welcome ").

As well as the above, some interesting quirks of the character include rather unusual ingenuity in his job such as: using police hang gliders, riding an ostrich, speaking hippie tongue, and using loud music to flush Seymour Skinner and Edna Krabappel out of Springfield Elementary ( albeit with a poorly chosen song ) to which they locked down to name a few.

The word vowel comes from the Latin word vocalis, meaning " speaking ", because The Taa language, spoken mainly in Botswana and Namibia, is extremely unusual in having ( depending on analysis ) between 20 and 31 vowels.

The product itself was also, in many ways, the polar opposite of 7 Up: while 7 Up is caffeine-free, colorless, and comes in a green bottle, dnL contained caffeine and was an unusual shade of green ( vaguely similar to the green of 7 Up's bottle ) in a clear bottle.

The unusual name of the newspaper comes from the USS Shenandoah, a U. S. Navy airship.

This gives information designers unusual power over their audiences compared to other designers, and " with great power comes great responsibility ".

The unusual title of the strip comes from a concert poster that Darby Conley once created for his brother's band, the Fuzzy Sprouts.

It also comes with the new Yamaha Quick Change finger-clamp locking tremolo system, which rids the user of having to cut the ball ends off of the strings, which is very unusual for a locking tremolo.

The name Gosnell was originally an unusual family surname of Anglo-Saxon origin, referring to someone living at " Gosa's Hill "; the name comes from mixing the old English name " Gosa ", and the word " cnoll " ( meaning hill ).

While the team comes to the depressing conclusion that Deep Space Nine could only hope to resist being taken over for at best two hours, an unusual starship decloaks 300m from the docking ring.

It is not purple ; its unusual name comes from the Purple Mountain Observatory in China, where it was rediscovered in 1980.

The paper's unusual name comes from a 19th century merger between two predecessors, the Memphis Commercial and the Appeal.

The unusual name of the town comes from the fact that the two major highways, State Routes 85 and 86, originally intersected in a Y-intersection.

Her unusual name comes from the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno.

A hallmark of the Yale System is the unusual flexibility that it provides ; with this flexibility comes great responsibility for the student to take an active role in directing his or her education according to individual interests.

For example, the Sandler Rules takes a relatively unusual stance when it comes to objections.

The Jeep Wrangler, a vehicle which is short, narrow, and designed to be used on uneven terrain, is unusual in that it comes with a roll bar as standard equipment.

When Vladimir's turn comes to tell his story, he suggests that he write down the story in a notebook because it is a rather long, unusual tale.

Mr. Trevor Bennett comes to Holmes with a most unusual problem.

The unusual name, which is pronounced " sin-you-ehs ", comes from the words synthesis ( synthesis of the tough exterior and the soft interior ) and US, which stands for Urban Sanctuary.

The unusual name of this little place comes from the days of the first ox wagon trek, when a stone outcrop imposed a sharp detour on travelers.

An unusual trait of Cheetor's is his tendency to have somewhat-prophetic dreams from time to time, such as ' foretelling ' Rhinox's words at the end of an episode, Tigatron and Airazor's return, Rattrap freeing him from a web, though where this talent comes from is unknown.

In any case, the name comes from a time when bridges rather than fords were unusual.

This glacier's unusual dark brown colour comes from dirt and sediment picked up in the glacier's accumulation zone, which is fed by the Río Manso Glacier several hundred metres higher up the mountain.

Several explanations have been offered for its unusual name ; perhaps the most common is that it comes from a childhood nickname of the founder, Gao Gui You 高贵友, given to protect him from bad luck.

Wilfred Schumann ( Paul Aspen ) Porter-Most of the time comes across as extremely stupid, but occasionally shows unusual signs of intelligence: in Episode 13 it is Wilfred who finds Arnold's wife when she goes missing.