What Is in a “Lake” Name? That Which We Call a Lake by Any Other Name

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name.".

The recent incident of a priest in the Syriac Orthodox church encouraging two parents not to baptize their new born child with an ancient Assyrian name can either be interpreted as an isolated phenomenon, or, which I will stress here, a form of religious conservatism positioning itself against modernism. In order to do demonstrate my thesis, I will first start with describing the role of religi...

Commentary: 'What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.' Shakespeare W. Romeo and Juliet, II, ii(47-48).

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A rose by any other name is still a rose...

A Pathological Rose by Any Other Name

As lecturers in pathology it is our task to impart a smattering of pathological knowledge to the modern Bristol medical student. In doing so we are forced to utilise the age old descriptive terms of surgical pathology passed down to us from time when Virchow was an SHO! Far from making our task easy, we are often asked to explain in terms more appropriate to the twentieth century what these arc...

A rose by any other name is a different rose.