So I was watching the season premiere of The Unit last night. This is a show on CBS about an elite military unit. And look what I saw:
One of the Executive Producers is named “Frank Military.” How is this possible? Is it a pseudonym? A coincidence? Or did growing up with the name “Frank Military” somehow lead to a job on a military TV show?
Chris Marcil on Mon, 29th Sep 2008 11:56 pmFrank Military’s kid was in the same third grade class as my kid.
Daniel on Wed, 3rd Jun 2009 6:11 amthere is actually a well known link between names and people’s jobs. it’s called an aptonym and it’s been suggested that people subconciously conform to their name if it is particularly suggestive of one particular group of jobs.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aptonym