Saturday, January 14, 2017
Well, that's one thing I got right.
For some reason I've been remembering a peculiar item found in Readers Digest in the '50s. It was about a numerologist who officially changed his name to improve the additive properties of the letters. As I remembered it, the original name was Miswald Wrandovakist, and the "luckier" version was Lincoln Disgrowles Wrandavanfgrlmotkets. I no longer trust distant memories, especially when they're bizarrely peculiar, so I finally decided to check it.
Google came through with the original item from a Tucson paper. Though the archived result is messily OCR'd across columns, the name itself is there, and my memory turns out to be mostly right. The "lucky" version given in this source is Lincoln Disgrowles Wrandvanfgrlmotkets. I don't see why my brain would have inserted the a (not o) between Wrand and van, so I'm guessing the Readers Digest did it.
Somehow reassuring.
Labels: coot-proofing
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