Astronomer Noah Brosch has speculated that the name of the character Sirius Black from the Harry Potter stories, who owns a unique ability to transform into a black dog, might have been inspired by "Sirius B".
Some scholars speculate that the name of Sviatoslav, composed of the Slavic roots for "holy" and "glory", was an artificial derivation combining those of his predecessors Oleg and Rurik (they mean "holy" and "glorious" in Old Norse, respectively).
A spokesman for the Four A's, Kipp Cheng, said he could not speculate on the naming of a successor to Mr. Drake because the choice requires the confirmation of the board of the association.
He has some big projects under way (a new Tappan Zee Bridge, a new Penn Station, a new LaGuardia Airport, the East Side Access) and some others in mind (a new J.F.K., a freight tunnel under New York Harbor), any one of which, some speculate, might one day bear the name of his father, if not the son.
(Some historians speculate that the word was originally the name of a Venetian coin).
The name of the tour was initially speculated to be "Tour of Earthly Delights", until Shakira's official website revealed the poster of the tour on 8 September, which highlighted "The Sun Comes Out World Tour" as the name.
Perhaps Apple was just being extremely careful not to draw any attention to the widely speculated name of its new multimedia device prior to this morning's announcement, but one simply cannot overlook the fact that the company doesn't have ownership over any domain names related to 'iPad'iPad
Divisadero is the name of the place where they live; Anna speculates from time to time on its Spanish root.
One thing our source isn't sure of is the name of Lyft's SUV service, but they speculate it could be called Lyft VIP or VIP Lyft.
Many speculated some link between this and the acquisition of another, similar service by the name of Periscope.
