Once in a while I get fixated on a word and try to understand why or how that word came to be. Dogma is one such. I mean coming from India its hilarious to see the possibility of this one.
Dogma could translate to mother of Dog.
Then there was a character in the famous Asterix cartoons called Dogmatix.
Dogma can dog someone like me no end.
If they clone a dog with a sheep maybe they will get a Dogma.
Also tends to sound like a special form of Mediterranean food that comes on a stick.
Or something wrapped in a grape leaf.
Although defined as a belief held by religious principle this Dog just goes Ma - doggone it.
Here is another essay on the subject of first names. As in birth names. Or names provided to an offspring at birth. While the developed world tends to shy away from the exotic like Refrigerator or Coca Cola for their new production there is a plethora of Jims and Johns and Bobs or Robs. Speaking of which I do not think there is a categoric decision point at the time of birth if a child will be hereafter called as Bob. I mean have not yet met a toddler called Bob or Rob for that matter. At some point though the parental instinct to mouth out multiple syllables runs out and they switch from calling the crawler Robert to simply Robbie to Rob. Now speaking of - it is strange that the name sounds like something you would not want Rob to do - i.e. Rob anyone. Then why call someone that? After all Rob Peter to Pay Paul is not exactly a maxim to live a young life? Is it? Perhaps Peter or Paul might want to have a say in it? Then there is this matter of going to the John. Why degrad...
Also sounds like the King of Bhutan..one had a name similar to this.
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