it might have even influenced the naming of Alice the goon

Yes, that's what I'd been thinking of when I posted this...sometimes a word from language B which sounds similar to a word from language A can influence the meaning of that word in language A, and I was wondering if that's what happened here. Maybe I should ask Quinion if he thinks there's anything to the Hugh Rawson theory (which I quite like, myself). Would that be blasphemous? He has way more resources at his disposal than we do.