https://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2007/11/27/whats_in_a_name_or_more_cheer/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usSat, 13 Jun 2026 07:15:32 -0400<![CDATA[What&#8217;s in a name? asked Juliet. Quite a lot, as she found to her sorrow, notwithstanding the constant redolence of that botanical efflorescence we happen to call a rose but others might call une églantine, die Rose, la rosa. I expect that Gillian Gibbons, a 54-year-old British school teacher working in Sudan, knows just how Juliet felt. A weirdo by any other name, she must be thinking to herself, would be as strange. Miss Gibbons was busy bringing literacy and civility to 6- and 7-year-old Sudanese children when she made her big mistake. She let her pupils name a teddy bear. And the name they chose, poor darlings, was &#8220;Muhammad.&#8221;]]>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:35:01 -0500<![CDATA[Roger Kimball]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-kimball/2007/11/27/whats_in_a_name_or_more_cheer-n114386