Wow, three posts in a day. It's all right I guess since I'm out of school now. All that free time also means a lot more thinking time. A lot more thinking time has led me to a question. Which came first, the name "Victor" or the word "victor"?
Scenario #1 (the word comes first): A mother-to-be is thinking about names for her kid. She wants him - or her I guess, but who names their girl Victor? - to be a successful guy, so she names him "Victor", because a victor is someone who wins at something.
Scenario #2 (the name comes first): There's this guy named Victor. He's a real war hero in his home nation of Unpronouncablistan, the guy who saved his country from the invading Roman Empire, or something like that. So to immortalize Victor the War Hero, everybody starts calling people who win the "victors".
Just some food for thought.
-Russ
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