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I've got to ask: who's got the info on his name? Google/various sociological database searches tell me that Sherlock means either "fair-haired" or "short-haired," and that it's a common surname. So what possessed Conan Doyle to give it to his protagonist as a prenomen? Did he ever discuss the name, or what it meant to him?
It's one of those things I'd never noticed, and then I started reading fic and the lovely strangeness of it really leaped out at me. I find it inexplicably - and intensely - sexy.
It's one of those things I'd never noticed, and then I started reading fic and the lovely strangeness of it really leaped out at me. I find it inexplicably - and intensely - sexy.
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Date: 2010-01-20 01:24 am (UTC)The British are wont to use surnames as forenames, though. I believe traditionally this was often done as a way of honoring the maternal family by using the mother's maiden name as one of a son's forenames.
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Date: 2010-01-20 01:26 am (UTC)oooh, I like that idea. I like it hard.
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Date: 2010-01-20 04:13 am (UTC)Here are the relevant bits from my copy of Baring-Gould, although it's not as enlightening as one might wish:
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