What’s in a Name?
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Recently, I experienced some very refreshing ‘simple’ and ‘common sensical’ names for various things on my East Sussex journey in the UK.
For example, I noticed the words on a white van, “Klassy K-nine” which referred to a dog grooming service; a sign in front of a residence which read ”Home Sweet Home” ( I thought the owner was pretty sweet until I realized it was the name of a real estate agency), and my favourite; a Hastings pub, whose Guinness I enjoyed, called “First In, Last Out”!
I also realized that many, if not all, of the nursery rhymes my mother read to me, and then I read to my children, came from simple English names and themes.
I encountered the ‘bluebells’ and ‘cockle shells’ referred to in contrary Mary’s garden, as well as the baaa baaa ’black sheep’ (have you any wool) animal on one of my hikes.
It was easy to see why ‘Little Bo Peep’ lost her sheep with so very many grazing opportunities, not to mention the fact that hikers are welcomed to ramble with the sheep. Tempting ‘taking’ for some, I imagine!
Of course Mary’s ‘little lamb’ was evident everywhere, being springtime in England’s pastures.
Poetic licence was observed as well, when I encountered “Simon the Pieman” in Rye, as I recall Simon ‘met’ the pieman going to the fair.
However, that did not prevent me from enjoying a ‘gingerbread man’ (before the fox outsmarted him) with a relatively good cup of coffee (tea is the English norm of course) in that quaint little bakeshop 
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