# Aptronyms in Fiction

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**Created:** [April 13, 2006, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aptronyms-in-fiction/352484 "2006-04-13T04:15:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aptronyms-in-fiction/352484/61 "2006-04-16T21:04:05Z")

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In Ken Kesey’s _One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest_, we have a Nurse Rachett, who, like a wrench is trying to take the inmates apart, especialy one Randall P. McMurphy, whose initials would be RPM. I thought that was a clever automotive play on Kesey’s part.

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