Hi this is Ceema and today I'm going to bring you a new lesson in regards to talking about
the word names. Well what's your name? Or may I take your name? Is a very common expression
or a very common thing that we say, when we want to talk about the word name, correct?
However, speaking good English is about using the same word in various different ways, in
different conversations. So therefore, today I'm going to bring you a lesson which will
help us use this word that is name in various different ways. We are however going to find
the different kind of names that people have, okay. My name is Ceema, right? But I’ve
got probably various names. Let's see what kind of names we've got in the English language.
Alright, the first name, is probably the most common name that we here about. It’s your
full name. So your full name is comprised of your first name, your middle name, if you
have one and your last name. My first name is Ceema, my last name could also be called
my surname or what we call as family name and your middle name could be just any other
name that you are known by or it could also be your father's name. So when someone you
know tells you to give their full name, they are expecting you to give your first name,
your last name. You may or may not give your middle name, okay.
Alright, the next one is a nick name. A nick name can also be called a pet name. Well what
is a nick name? A nick name is a name that people call you by but it's not an official
name. Okay so may be your name is Victoria, so someone might just call you Vicky. May
be your name is Thomas and someone might just call you Tom. Um... may be your name is, Christopher
and your called as may be Chris. Right so nick names are not your official name like
your full name but they are names that people just call you by.it could be in your family
or your friends. Okay sometimes nick names are also based on personality. So you know
if I am particularly chubby someone might call me, hey chubby or if I am left handed
like I am, I may be called a lefty. Okay if you are a little but too sweet, you may be
called sugar by your friends. Okay so a nick name could be a pet name or it could be a
name based on your personality. Okay the next one is a maiden name. A maiden name is only
used for a woman. So guys do not have a maiden name. Okay a maiden name is a name used by
a woman before marriage. Well you know sometimes women change their last name when they get
married, right when they do that, they have a maiden name which is, the name or their
last name before they got married and that's what their maiden name is. Okay so your maiden
name cannot be your last name after you get married. It’s your last name before you
were married. Okay, um...the next name is a pseudonym. Okay watch the spelling here,
but the pronunciation is pseudonym, okay this is an official name used by professionals
but this is used as a name which is different from the real name. so the pseudonym is not
the real name, it is an official name used by professionals or anybody who wants to do
kind of you know not give away their real name, for whatever reasons, okay. Um... a
pen name is used by writers. A lot of times writers especially when you see their book,
you know it's written by somebody but that may not be their real name, that could be
very well by their pen name. Not every time but it could be their real name sometimes.
Okay and a stage name is something that is used by, well the word stage, so it talks
about people in the entertainment industry. It could be musicians, it could be actors,
it could be people who are singers. I know a couple of singers who don't use their real
name but they use what they call as a stage name. Okay and you then have an alias name.
An alias name is used by two people, it could be used either by criminals to deceive people.
Criminals obviously do not want to keep a record of what they've done, right. So therefore
they will not use their name, they will use an alias name because they want to deceive
people and not trace their bad work to anybody who would be able to name them for doing it.
Okay an alias name could also be used by anybody else who does not want to give their real
name. Okay so maybe you are working in a call center and you don't want to give your real
name because it's like really big name that people can't understand or people find it
very difficult to pronounce. In that case you will use an alias name, okay. I’m now
going to take you through some expressions using the word name.
So we are going to look at some expressions using the word names. Okay the first expression
using this word is didn't catch your name. How do you catch a name? Or don't catch it.
Okay now this is an expression that you use when you are going to ask someone to repeat
their name. Okay, so it's a polite way of asking someone to repeat their name. Why do
we do this? Why do we ask someone to repeat their name? Sometimes we can't really hear
people when they say their name the first time. We don't hear them properly or correctly,
right? So if you want to really know what the person has said, this is a polite way
of telling them to repeat their name. So when I say, I’m sorry I didn't catch your name,
I'm asking you to repeat yourself once again.
Okay the next expression is, does the name ring a bell? This is more of a question. Okay
and this question is used when you are asking if a particular name sounds familiar or if
you recognize a name from somewhere. So you are asking them, does this name sound familiar?
So if someone says, did you meet Karen? And you are like who is Karen, you are thinking
in your mind who is Karen? So the person would say, does the name ring a bell? So you are
thinking, is it Karen from the party we went to last Saturday? Or is it Karen from you
know school? You don't know right, so does the name ring a bell? Is another way of asking
if a particular name sound familiar or do you recognize that particular name from somewhere?
Okay the third expression using this word is protecting their good name. Okay um...why
would you protect a good name? Over here, good name refers to the reputation, it could
be the reputation of a company, it could be the reputation of a person, okay and if you
are protecting your reputation, you are preserving your name or preserving your reputation. Do
you know that when there is a certain theft that occurs in a company or in an organization,
they tend to not let people know about it, do you know why? Because they are trying to
protect their good name. They don't want their company to be known as a place where theft
occurs right? So they will protect their name, they will preserve their reputation. People
also preserve their own reputation. If someone talks bad about you, you don't like it, right?
Because you want to protect your name, your reputation.
Okay the next expression is, make a name for yourself. Okay this is an expression that
you use when your work is well known. if you are a very good actor or a very good singer
and then you keep getting contracts to sing and act in various plays or in theatre or
at the stage, you have made a name for yourself because now people know you for your work,
right? In other words you also become a household name. so in your professional life if you
are well known for your work, you have made a name for yourself, people know you for your
work and therefore you become a household name, very important word you want to make
a note of.
Okay, um... the next one is, call someone names. Okay what is it to call someone names?
This is a very bad thing; you don't want to do it because this is a very rude or offensive
way of naming people. If someone is overweight, you call them fatty. Not a very good thing.
If someone is not a very good person, you call them stinky may be, not a very good thing.so
you don't call anyone names because that is a rude or offensive way of naming people.
Okay people don't like it. So you shouldn't want to call anyone names.
The next one is, you name it. You name it is a different way of saying everything you
can imagine or another way of saying including everything. So you could say something like
Let's Talk deals with grammar, accents, pronunciation, you name it, okay so we are talking about
everything you can imagine, we are including everything. So this is an expression that
says, you name it which means including everything, okay. And the last expression about names
is, don't want to name names. Sometimes you don't want to reveal names of people. Okay
so
why would you not want to reveal someone's name? Well sometimes, people are involved
in something very bad but you know about it. But you'd rather not say and therefore you
don't want to name names. In other words, this is an expression that tells that you
don't want to reveal names of people who are involved in something very bad. It could be
something very illegal or something really bad that you want to hide. Well that's it
on this lesson on naming names. I am sure you found it very informative. If you have
some other kind of names, please write into us, until then, this is me saying take care.