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Since we've been talking about names for the past couple of episodes, here's one of my favourites from the Allusiovaults. It's a literary mystery, a confusion of Scottish identity and authenticity; it's the unexpected, complicated, quite beautiful history of the name Fiona.

There's a transcript at theallusionist.org/fiona. Thanks to Harry Josie Giles an...


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Since we've been talking about names for the past couple of episodes, here's one of my favourites from the Allusiovaults: Yes, As In, featuring people who have names that are more usually found as common nouns and adjectives.

Got thoughts and feelings about your own name? Share them with me via theallusionist.org/contact, either for an upcoming episode about your names,...


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"I just thought: I wonder if I could get guys called Trevor to reclaim the name?" says Trevor Cunningham. "So I went on LinkedIn and I just looked for Trevors, and I started contacting them." And, having found way more Trevors than he had ever met in his life, Trevor set up AskTrev.com, a site where people can get advice for free from people named Trevor. Such as engineer Tre...


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