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Does crazy come from acrasia?

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Does crazy come from acrasia?

Nope. Crazy comes from the verb craze (or acraze) '' < French écraser (older variant acrser) 'to flatten, crush'; related to crash. The cracks in the glazed surface of a pot is said to be crazed.


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Thanks, instant braincracker laugh

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Hi...I'm new here today blush I stumbled upon this site the other day when looking at interesting word...which I've now forgotten and want to remember.
Can you help?

It was word for name to do with someones job or profession..and examples were ...like William Wordsworth/poet and Lorraine Bobbit (well we all know what she did...)

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It's called an aptronym or aptonym. I have no idea what that R is doing in the first choice but that seems to be preferred version.

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I think we've been here before:
The term aptronym was allegedly coined by the American newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams, by an anagrammatic reordering of the first letters of patronym (to suggest apt) to denote surnames that suit the occupation of the name’s bearer (such as Baker for a baker). Both aptronym and the synonymous euonym are rarely encountered. [Encyc. Brit.]
..but I don't think you bought it the first time either.

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thanks guys...

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Originally Posted By: tsuwm
an anagrammatic reordering of the first letters of patronym (to suggest apt) to denote surnames that suit the occupation of the name’s bearer (such as Baker for a baker).

What would you call a name like Anatole France? France is an assumed name, not his birth name.

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