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Shmanners

Names and Honorifics

Shmanners

Travis McElroy

Etiquette, Society & Culture, Schmanners, Travis Mcelroy, History Of Etiquette, Teresa Mcelroy, Comedy, Mcelroy

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Hello Internet! Welcome Friend to another episode of Shmanners made for you by Travis and Teresa! Sit right down Comrade and enjoy an hour all about NAMES AND HONORIFICS! We discuss the origins of Mr. & Mrs. and how we see them changing in the future and how non-gendered honorifics are gaining popularity in the present! We talk about changing one's name after marriage! We talk about trying to give yourself a college nickname! We also answer your questions! How to correct someone who mispronounces your name! How to ask someone for their name when they've already told you once! And a whole lot more! Exclamation point! Enjoy and be sure to share!

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0:00.0

Hey T-bone. Bone. Are you ready to record another episode of Shrinchman? Let's get it.

0:06.2

It's Schmanners! Oh, Hello internet. I'm your husband host to Travis Macquarie.

0:35.0

And I'm your wife host Teresa Macquroy.

0:37.0

And you're listening to Schmanners.

0:39.0

It's extraordinary etiquette for ordinary occasions.

0:41.0

Hi, Bibi.

0:42.0

Hello, my dove dove and my hatchling my baby bird. I love it.

0:50.1

Hello dear. Hello darling.

0:55.0

That's it. Goodbye everybody. The end of the show.

1:00.0

I'm very, very, very excited for this episode. Well, I guess I should say, I don't know if excited is the right word. This episode is very near and dear to my heart. This episode is very near and dear to my heart.

1:08.0

This is I take names and the calling of names very seriously for a couple reasons.

1:15.0

Well, one is which you love your name.

1:18.4

I love my name very, very much.

1:19.9

I love the cadence.

1:20.9

I love the the assonence

1:23.0

no what is it like I know it's not alliteration

1:27.0

is it I think it is assonance when the sound the vowel sounds are repeated

1:31.0

repeated right Travis Patrick McElroy yeah a full name it's just and it's a good there's

1:36.6

lots of like firm consonancy there so it's a very declarative name it's a name that you can say of someone's like, who are you?

1:44.0

I'm Travis Patrick McElroy and you say it with a, oh, I'm John Proctor.

1:48.4

And that's the other, so the other reason is I think that names are an extension of people's identity.

1:56.4

And I'm not trying to be too fufy about it to like there's in one of my favorite book series the Dresden files they talk about

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