It changed his life. Erich took Houdin's last name, changed the pronunciation and added and "i" at the end.

VOA: special.2010.12.19

We can easily imagine a world in which I don't have the last name Kagan or perhaps to switch it around, Shelly's not my name.

我们可以容易地想象一个世界里,我不姓卡根或者,反过来,我不叫薛立

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If you know more than one person with the same last name, circle it twice.

如果有一个姓你认识的不止一个，那就圈两次。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

When he began performing, he changed his last name to Denver, after the capital of his favorite state,Colorado.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

Steve, and I guess in red he should be the Coca-Cola guy, and let's pick on our Jimmy stewart from last week, whose name is Patrick.

斯蒂文是可口可乐的经理,再请出上周的吉米·斯图尔特,叫帕特里克的那位同学来

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The answer: a filly. And the last question: What is the name for a male horse that is under four years old.

VOA: special.2010.08.31

There was a famous case in the 1970s or '80s, there was a family called Trognon, and a trognon is a cigarette butt, and when they tried to adopt a baby, it would be called, let's say Jean-Philippe Trognon, they said,"oh,no, that baby would be damaged by having such a last name; you don't have the right to adopt this baby."

在上世纪七八十年代有一个出名的案例中,这家人姓特鲁侬,意思是香烟屁股,他们想要领养一个婴儿,取名为,简·菲利佩·特鲁侬,法国人说,不不,取这样一个名字有损于这个婴儿,你们不能领养这个孩子

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

An example is the story of a young man whose last name was spelled D-U-L-A but pronounced "Dooley."

VOA: special.2009.07.27

And the last thing we can think about is how do we name this n h bond, and again, we just name it based on it symmetry.

最后我们要讨论的是,如何命名这个NH键，同样，我们基于它的对称性命名它。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Ehrich took his last name, changed the pronunciation,added an "i" and began calling himself Harry Houdini.

VOA: special.2010.12.17

The word HeLa uses the first two letters of her first and last name.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Last year Emma was the number one name for girls.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

Some add their husband's last name at the end.

VOA: special.2009.07.06