US EditionThe role of nature in the naming of early Illawarra towns, starting with a fig tree
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The role of nature in the naming of early Illawarra towns, starting with a fig tree
The fig tree, Dapto Road, Illawarra, 1910. Photo: State Library of NSW. PXE 711/586. “Nominative determinism” is the hypothesis that people tend to gravitate towards areas of employment that fit their names. The term is sometimes thought to have been invented as recently as 1994 but the idea seems to me a pretty old one. In 1652, William Jenkyn, an English clergyman, argued that first names should be “as a thread tyed about the finger to make us…
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