Aptronym Of The Week

David PECKER

   I have been away for a while and have done no blogging. I have returned home, but since it is sunny today this post will be brief, which is a good thing for you readers. The primary purpose is to push the post below down a bit. It is supposed to rain tomorrow, so I may get back to work - unless the neighbours come over to welcome us back and force us to celebrate too much. 

  You likely will have been following the many judicial proceedings south of our border and are familiar with the name above. It is the aptronym chosen. You may not be familiar with that word and, if not, read the aptly titled, "Aptronyms" in MM, where you will also learn about "inaptronyms", "nominative determinism" and "nominative contradeterminism". If you are a new reader, that substantive post is more typical of what is to be found in MM, than this rather shallow one, which will not bother to discuss derivative terms like, "peckerhead" or "dickhead."

 Pecker is the former publisher of the tabloid, National Enquirer, and can also take credit for involvement with other publications such as, Men's Fitness, Muscle and Fitness, Flex and Fit Pregnancy. As an indicator of their significance you should know that he abandoned a career as an accountant at Price Waterhouse, to produce them. 
  Pecker should be given credit for the photo above since I learned from him that, "The only thing that is important is the cover of a magazine." It is from a recent issue of the National Enquirer.  The editor, writer and CEO of Mulcahy's Miscellany will likely consider this strategy rather than work on their prose (note the "their", which the editor inserted.)

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Note the singular usage since this post was not deeply researched. It is suggested that you simply use the Wikipedia entry for "David Pecker" rather than google the word "pecker." 

CANCON: 

"American Media's David Pecker Resigns From Postmedia Board:

U.S. Media Outlets Reported That He Was Granted Immunity by Federal Prosecutors in Connection With an Investigation into Payments Made During the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign, Financial Post, Aug. 28, 2018.

"David Pecker, chairman of the company that publishes the National Enquirer, resigned from the board of Postmedia Network Canada Corp. and its news-publishing subsidiary on Tuesday....“We would like to sincerely thank David for his dedication and contributions to Postmedia,” Paul Godfrey, Postmedia’s executive chairman and chief executive, added in the statement. Pecker joined the board of Postmedia, Canada’s largest newspaper publisher with print, online and mobile titles including the National Post, in October of 2016. His resignation Tuesday was “effective immediately,” according to the statement.