Cather + Wren = Catherine? Fangirl and the pin/pen merger
I recently read the novel Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, which is an excellent book that has nothing to do with linguistics. Despite that, I ended up noticing something linguistically interesting about the characters’ names, specifically that of Cather, the main character, and her twin sister Wren.
(Although she goes by “Cath” for most of the book, I’ll continue referring to her by her full name for reasons that will shortly become apparent. I’ll be discussing something that happened midway through the book, but I think it’s really too minor to count as a spoiler.)
It’s a Fangirl kind of week.
This article is both interesting and amusing. Though finding it amusing might be mostly me-specific.
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