Sentences with phrase «first unusual name»

Hadoop is hardly the first unusual name to be attached to a tech company, of course.

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The church also took an unusual new name: First Baptist Church at the Mall.

They right away lost four home games and drew one from their first five home games, overall only grinding out two wins in their first twelve games, then manager Gordon Strachan resorted to unusual measures, signing up a local Pagan witch by the name of Cerridwen Dragonoak Connelly to perform a ceremony on the pitch.

Nowadays a name that at first sounds unusual can quickly trigger a baby name trend that sees it rise to fame.

Amilia is an unusual first name for females.

Millennials, who as a rule like to do things their own way, are finding unusual, special and varied names for their babies, leading to grandparents who have learned to keep their opinions to themselves and classroom teachers who may have to guess at a child's gender before the first day of class.

Janeth is a somewhat prominent first name for females (# 2458 out of 4276, Top 57 %) but an unusual last name for all people.

One recent example is Hazel — which undoubtedly would not have increased as much as it has if first Julia Roberts hadn't named her daughter that, and then John Green hadn't named the main character in «The Fault in Our Stars» Hazel — a highly unusual name for a teenage girl when the book was published, but one that educated avant - garde writers like Green (prep school grad, Kenyon College English major, married to an art museum director) were giving to their own baby daughters.

Esposito faces a not unusual problem for a first - time candidate: She does not have high name recognition, especially compared to her Republican challenger, Tom Croci, the Islip town supervisor.

The first two directly elected mayors of London were very unusual «showbiz» politicians, widely known by just their first names.

She has also honed a stump speech, talking about her unusual name (yes, that is her first name, and her last name is Dutch), then touching on public schools, small businesses, transportation and infrastructure.

However, what makes the tablet's launch more unusual is the fact that this might be the first time that a carrier has launched a tablet bearing its own name.

It uses some unusual names for its classes, with Prestige replacing business and Kosmo often replacing first.

The unusual name for this 4 - star hotel comes from the natural springs running underneath the building, the source of fresh water when Sydney was first settled.

Shadows of the Damned is the product of an unusual collaboration between Grasshopper Manufacture (Creators of Killer7 and the No More Heroes series) and EA (the company that EVERYONE knows because they publish Soukyugurentai under the name Terra Diver to the US, making it the first time a Raizing game has made its way to western territories... and EA make a couple of sports games that no - one really knows much about).

Place names are mentioned only if they are somewhat unusual, and only the first time they occur.

Clerihew Defined by Wikipedia this way: * It is biographical and usually whimsical, showing the subject from an unusual point of view; but it is hardly ever satirical, abusive or obscene * It has four lines of irregular length (for comic effect) * The first line consists solely (or almost solely) of a well - known person's name.