[…] a part of the name-giving process […] is easy enough to understand; it goes on in the broadest daylight. When a human being is born into the world, custom, founded in convenience, requires that he have a name; and those who are responsible for his existence furnish the required adjunct, according to their individual tastes, which are virtually a reflection of those of the community in which they live.
- Whitney (1875), a pag.135

[…] in making provision of expression for new conceptions, the name-giving faculty gets its material simply where it can most conveniently, not inquiring too curiously whence it comes. Virtually the object aimed at is to find a sign which may henceforth be linked by association closely to the conception, and used to represent it in communication and in the processes of mental action. To attempt more that this would be useless indeed, when the tie by which each individual holds and uses his whole body of expression is only this same one of association.
- Whitney (1875), a pag.140