first-names

It really needs to be three first-names masquerading as a real name.

Here we go again « Dating Jesus 2009

As an American computer technologist though not a Californian, I have for more than thirty years lived in a business world where everyone orally first-names everyone else, even people who are bitterly and openly hostile to one another.

Email etiquette | Linguism 2009

As an American computer technologist though not a Californian, I have for more than thirty years lived in a business world where everyone orally first-names everyone else, even people who are bitterly and openly hostile to one another.

Email etiquette | Linguism | Language Blog 2009

The sweetest thing for a person is his/her name and I've seen that this does help a lot, calling people by their first-names, especially in new places.

Archive 2004-07-01 Chirayu 2004

If I go to a place, more than once, I remember the first-names of people I meet and especially at places where they have their names as a badge.

Archive 2004-07-01 Chirayu 2004

The sweetest thing for a person is his/her name and I've seen that this does help a lot, calling people by their first-names, especially in new places.

Footsteps on Clouds Chirayu 2004

If I go to a place, more than once, I remember the first-names of people I meet and especially at places where they have their names as a badge.

Footsteps on Clouds Chirayu 2004

I have thus at any rate preserved the often comic contrast between the first-names and surnames, of which the Hobbits themselves were well aware.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

I have treated Hobbit first-names, as far as possible, in the same way.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

In some old families, especially those of Fallohide origin such as the Tooks and the Bolgers, it was, however, the custom to give high-sounding first-names.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954