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YO! (it's there, in white...) :¬ )
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but don't forget the dyslexic rabbi.
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etaoin! This is such an intelligent observation! It's high time for a thorough research on How just a few anonymous dylslexic writers and printers caused minor persisting spelling changes. A noble task for the honorable linguists to find out whether they were Jews, Saxons, Celts, Rabbiteaters, Romans, Germanics, Germans, Danes, Dutch or Hittites. On top of that stutterers may have thrown in the occasional doubling of syllables.
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E.g., MnE bird from OE bridd, MnE third from OE ğridda.
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 You see? All those anonymous genial stutterers? 
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A few verbs in Latin formed the perfect stem by reduplication: e.g., cano 'I sing', cecini 'I have sung', do 'I give', dedi 'I have given', pendo 'I consider', pependi 'I have considered.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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in white Oh, when will I learn?! [smacking forehead e] I knew your post was too deep for just one line!
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Is there a word for that quality which a word or phrase may have that marks it to our ears as a proper noun? Depending on your frame of reference certain words are obviously names...
So, is there a name for the characteristic itself, that ring of nomenclature? I think the answer is no. There is no term because the phenomenon you describe doesn't exist (at least not in English). There is no "nounish" inflexion or indicator, but it is purely grammatical and social context that tells us that it is a name. Or as you put it, frame of reference.
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Aside from the conflation of noun and proper name, I agree there probably is no particular word for what I am talking about.
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