"Really? As in the animal/foodstuff/music genre?"

"Is that a stripper name?"

"What were your parents thinking?"

When your name is a word that is more usually a noun or adjective than a human moniker, you hear the same questions a lot. But there's a story in every name, and yours is probably a more interesting story than most.

Content note: there are a few swears in this episode. (None of the people have swear names, though.)

COOL NAMES, COOL PEOPLE:

In aphabetical order of surname, you heard from

The transcript of this episode is at theallusionist.org/transcripts/nounnames.

YOUR RANDOMLY SELECTED WORD FROM THE DICTIONARY:

braccate