Or maybe we just didn’t think of it first. A reader writes to Eugene Volokh:
[Another former student] passed along your very entertaining piece for Slate.com on the case law of various funny names. I thought you might like to know that my middle name is “c” — as in the scientific abbreviation for the speed of light….
I come from a family of scientists, my mother’s maiden name begins with a “C,” and I was born very very quickly. My father has this to add: “I don’t think you have a middle name. You have a middle symbol. Something simple, ethereal, brief, fast, and different.”
…[I]t’s a pain — class rings, diplomas, passports, etc. are almost always printed incorrectly, despite my efforts to get it right. I omit it from my resume, etc. to eliminate the possible perception that I’ve made a typo spelling my own name. On the other hand, it’s a great ice breaker.
If you were going to name your child (okay, the middle name) a symbol from math or physics, or some other quantitative field, what would it be?
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