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And who says that Sherlock Holmes was not real????
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who says that Sherlock Holmes was not real????
I'd always suspected Holmes was a fictional creation of Doctor Watson's.
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In the words of a long since gone US radio personality whose name I can't recall:
"Now we're gettin' nowhere!"
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I have a challenge for you guys. Figure out origin, etymology of "Sherlock".
How many names can you think of that end in "lock"? Havelock is a family name, perhaps with origin in
Danish prince so named, no clue as to meaning.
Then there is the "man from Porlock" who allegedly made Coleridge forget ending to Kubla Kahn.
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sheesh, you need to be a Sherlock to figure this one out! what I've got so far: from: http://www.behindthename.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?terms=sherlockSHERLOCK m English Possibly derived from a Middle English nickname meaning "shear lock", referring to people with closely cut hair. that doesn't really mean a whole lot as it relates to Conan Doyle, but Holmes isn't much better. something to do with an adaptation of the word "Ulmes", where they made a type of fabric, which did, at least, seem a bit tweedy. but that's a long stretch... even the OED didn't offer any background...
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Conan Doyle being what he was, I just thought it possible that for a character so important
as Sherlock Holmes, he might have wrapped a tantalizing riddle in it. Fun to speculate, anyway.
I just remembered there was a famous surgeon, Dr. Alfred Blalock. Still no clue as to what
"lock" stands for.
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you're probably right about the hidden meaning...
I always thought that "lock" was probably from "lac" or lake, but this whole hair thing has me wondering about a name with lock in it would be describing the person's hair, which would have been descriptive...
back to the OED to look up "sher" or "sherl"...
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