Create a Pen Name, Ben Franklin-Style
| 15 April 2011 | Filed under Baby Names, Unique Baby Names |
Did you know that, as a 16-year-old, Ben Franklin wrote letters to the The New-England Courant posing as a middle-aged widow named Silence Dogood?
You can see all of his Silence Dogood letters at The Papers of Benjamin Franklin.
So here’s the game. Create your very own Silence Dogood-esque nom de plume by following this formula:
- Virtue forename + Two-word surname
The surname can be related to the first name (Honesty Truthteller) or be totally different (Fortitude Jellybean).
If you need help coming up with a virtue, you could always start with Ben Franklin’s favorites.
Euphoric Happyhour
(What? It’s Friday!)
Honor Stronghold
Felicity Fairweather
Mercy Cook-off
Hope Crossroads
Faith Foodstuffs
Temperance Travelon :)
Charity Latesleeper
or
Comitas Papersaver
(from the Roman Virtues)