Coincidental Names

[jducoeur]

It's sometimes very disconcerting how small the wordstock suddenly seems to be, with the Internet providing near-global communication. I just came across the LJ of fenmere, who, bizarrely, seems to be no one I've ever met. This is curious only because I used to run the Borough of Fenmere in Carolingia, and as far as I know, the founders of that Borough simply made up the name. (Which means, more or less, "swamp-swamp", a fine description of the lower parts of campus during the rainy season.)

It's possible that it's not pure coincidence -- he lives in Bellingham, WA, near to now-Baroness/Mistress/etc Jane Lynn of Fenmere. But I have a nasty feeling that it's just an illustration that you can't even make up a novel word any more...

Comments

[gower.livejournal.com]

Gnfl*rixj}

[keshwyn]

Nobody else aside from me that I've ever met knew what a keshwyn was. :)

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

Who is Fenmere? BU?

[jducoeur]

Brandeis, my alma mater. I was Provost in '84, and the year of '85-
86...

Yea Fenmere!

[zachkessin.livejournal.com]

I was a swampie from 92-93 and again in 2002-2003. I'm now founding a group in Israel.