Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall, 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English primatologist and anthropologist. Considered to be the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her over 55-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees since she first went to Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania in 1960. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots programme, and she has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. She has served on the board of the Nonhuman Rights Project since its founding in 1996. Goodall has received many honours for her environmental and humanitarian work, as well as others. She was named a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE) in an Investiture held in Buckingham Palace in 2004. In April 2002, Secretary-General Kofi Annan named Goodall a United Nations Messenger of Peace.
Thousands of words can be made by rearranging the letters in this name. Several descriptive lexagrams can be made from them and, when place together, can create a biographical perspective. A lexagram (or lexigram) is a form of wordplay where the letters in a name or phrase are shuffled to create new words. These new words make short statements that, ideally, describe the original term. For example, the word ASTRONOMICAL has letters to make the words STAR, SOLAR, and CORONA, as well as to create each word in the phrases AN ASTRAL SAILOR IN NASA and ROMANTIC MOONLIT MARTIAN CANALS. Look for where the letters in each word can be found in ASTRONOMICAL. To make a lexagram, find words hidden in the letters of your name or a short phrase, then use those terms to make sentences that describe the original name. To make it easy to read, the original phrase and any words found within it are CAPITALIZED.
For example, Goodall’s married name, JANE VAN LAWICK-GOODALL, rather than her birth name, contains her birthplace, LONDON ENGLAND.
The letters in
DAME JANE MORRIS GOODALL
can make the words which say
IMMERSED IN ANIMAL ANGER, A RAGE ADMIRER,
DERAIL SEMINAR DOGMA.
Her assertions of chimpanzee relationships and social order – especially primate aggression – were both popular and controversial.
DR GOODALL IS NAMED A DAME IN A GOLDEN ORDER.
Some short fragmentary lexagrams allude to other honors she received such as GOLDEN ORDER for Order of the Golden Ark, the World Wildlife Award for Conservation in 1980 and ROGER MEMORIAL MEDAL could indicate the Roger Tory Peterson Memorial Medal from the Harvard Museum of Natural History in 2001. In a 2004 ceremony at Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth II conferred on her the title of Dame of the British Empire, equivalent to a knighthood.
RESIDE IN DAR ES SALAAM.
Dr. Goodall lived for many years the former capital as well as the most populous city in Tanzania. Located on the Swahili coast, Dar Es Salaam is one of the fastest growing cities in the world.
The names of other significant people appear in Goodall’s professional name.
JIM MOORE is a supporter of her theories of primate aggression. Some primatologists disagree that Goodall’s studies are flawed. Moore criticizes the assertions of such professionals, indicating that some studies of other chimpanzee groups have shown aggression similar to that reported by Goodall in Gombe studies.
One colorful anecdote involves the comic strip Far Side, drawn by Gary Larson. In one of the panels, Larson shows two chimpanzees grooming. One finds a blonde human hair on the other and inquires, “Conducting a little more ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?” The Jane Goodall Institute thought this was in bad taste, and had their lawyers draft a letter to Larson and his distribution syndicate, in which they described the cartoon as an “atrocity.” They were stymied by Goodall herself when she returned and saw the cartoon, as she stated that she found the cartoon amusing. Since then, all profits from sales of a shirt featuring this cartoon go to the Jane Goodall Institute. Goodall wrote a preface to The Far Side Gallery 5, detailing her version of the controversy, and the Institute’s letter was included next to the cartoon in the complete Far Side collection. She praised Larson’s creative ideas, which often compare and contrast the behaviour of humans and animals. In 1988, when Larson visited Gombe he was attacked by a chimpanzee named Frodo. The surname LARSON appears in Goodall’s professional name.
The word ANAGRAM is in her name. An anagram is a very specific form of word play, like a super-lexagram. Like a lexagram, each word within it comes from letters in the source phrase however each-and-every letter must be used in the resulting phrase. A Perfect Anagram describes the person, perfectly.
Anagrams of
DAME JANE MORRIS GOODALL
A DROLL ADAGE REJOINS MOM
A DADAISM – JEER, GLOOM, LORN
LO, A MOROSE DREAMLAND JIG
Name Variations
Dame Goodall’s name is a great example of how a personal name changes throughout a lifetime. Consider how subtle changes in the letter patterns can provide unique words to describe elements of her life. her personality, and her goals as she grew and matured.
- Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall. This is a birth name which shows basic personality traits and can indicate potential life paths, goals, and warnings. It reflects how others see the person.
- Jane van Lawick-Goodall or Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall. This married name by itself shows how a person subjectively relates to the partnership as well as how they are perceived of by the spouse and the world during the marriage. These influences can either emphasize or depreciate the worth of terms found in a birth name.
- Doctor Jane Morris Goodall or Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE. These are both professional names and titled names. Terms found with the addition of a title like Baroness or Doctor add color and tones of influence to the original name, reinforcing vocational goals and merits. It is important to consider which words occur uniquely in the name with the title to show what the honors have brought to person.
Each type of name reveals various aspects of a life. When exploring self-referential lexagrams it is important to consider how the words and the name relate to a certain time of a person’s life.
Compare Rare Words
Rare words are those which occur infrequently within English names. Thus, these terms are specific to a particular pattern of letters; rather, they are unique to one person’s name. Compare some specific words found in Goodall’s married name and her professional name. Remember that the names contained the widest disparity of terms, around 1,000 and 6,000 respectively.
Not all specific words have especial relevance to the subject’s lifestyle even though they are statistically significant. When confronted with a variety of terms which are compared to an unknown value (such as details of Goodall’s personal and professional lives, in this case) one must make inferences.
One philosophy of name analysis is to look for connotations rather than denotations. This means to consider the mood or feeling of a set of words – the tone of the word list – rather than the collection of dictionary definitions. Both lists contain technical terms but words within the professional name contain more emotional terms, more words potentially indicative of personality traits.
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The married-name list shows more study and academic research than does the professional list. Even though she had finished university prior to marriage, her early years were filled with primate studies. These terms could, then, reflect Goodall’s scholastic achievements during the middle part of her life before she began in-depth research of chimpanzees. The appearance of DJINN here could be interpreted as connoting a sense of wonder or dreaming of the future, of exploring the mysteries of nature. In 2010, she was quoted on the subject of God: “I don’t have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I’m out in nature. It’s just something that’s bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it’s enough for me.” This variation of Goodall’s name contain the phrase GOODALL ON GOD. In regards to word definitions one can note some key words in her married name. ALLELIC, CODON and VALINE refer to biology, specifically genetics and biochemistry. DOGIE and ANOLE are animals. ANODIC and ALNICO refer to electricity. This confirms a strong interest in the sciences – especially animals.
Later, as her professional career developed she became less involved with primate studies and found her interests expanding into activism. Protecting wildlife and nature are very emotionally charged fields. While denotative, certain terms in her professional name are also highly connotative: ALARMISM, DEGRADER, DEMONISE. This supports the idea that hidden within her very name were terms that allude to a strong increase in emotional activity in her later years. DADAISM, the rarest word found in either name, was a European artistic and literary movement in the early 1900s that flouted conventional aesthetic and cultural values by producing works marked by nonsense, travesty, and incongruity. This might be reflected in her 1993 retraction of her early methods of study wherein she recognized the inherent innocence of her pre-collegiate observations of chimpanzees in the wild. “When, in the early 1960s, I brazenly used such words as ‘childhood’, ‘adolescence’, ‘motivation’, ‘excitement’, and ‘mood’ I was much criticised. Even worse was my crime of suggesting that chimpanzees had ‘personalities’. I was ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman animals and was thus guilty of that worst of ethological sins -anthropomorphism.”
Compare Long Words
In addition to rare words, terms with many letters are also highly significant in their specificity to a particular name. These terms are unique to that specific letter pattern; small words are likely to appear more frequently and with the addition of each additional letter the chances of a term appearing in multiple names diminishes rapidly. In our own study of words found within English names, we examined how often more than 100,000 words were found in 1.2 million names. In general, even the most common four-letter words appear in over 50% of English names, while the single-most common ten-letter words (adrenaline, senatorial) appeared in 4% of people’s names.
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ANALOGICAL, COLLEGIAN, ADVANCING, AWAKENING are all terms which seem to refer to the application of her university studies in her married life. Many terms in Goodall’s professional name could refer to elements of how her Institute and youth programs were organized and managed: DISARRANGED, REORGANISED, and DISARRANGE might refer to either business or personal levels of productivity while MEGALOMANIA, DEMORALISED, and MANAGERIAL could indicate how either she or her staff treated employees and volunteers. MISDEMEANOR and GRAMMARIAN seem to reflect a more recent incident in her life when, in 2013, the publisher of her book Seeds of Hope delayed the release of the book due to the discovery of plagiarised portions. How the word ARMAGEDDON fits into Goodall’s professional life, I leave to the readers’ own imaginations.
Notice the distinct lack of overlap between these two word lists. Terms are not repeated between the two names.
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The letters in a name or phrase can form many other words. Several descriptive lexagrams can be made from them and, when place together, can create a biographical perspective. A lexagram (or lexigram) is a form of wordplay where the letters in a name or phrase are shuffled to create new words. These new words make short statements that, ideally, describe the original term. For example, the word ASTRONOMICAL has letters to make the words STAR, SOLAR, and CORONA, as well as to create each word in the phrases AN ASTRAL SAILOR IN NASA and ROMANTIC MOONLIT MARTIAN CANALS. Look for where the letters in each word can be found in ASTRONOMICAL. To make a lexagram, find words hidden in the letters of your name or a short phrase, then use those terms to make sentences that describe the original name. To make it easy to read, the original phrase and any words found within it are CAPITALIZED.
When searching for words-within-words, shuffling the sequence of letters in the name or phrase is very helpful. While an online generator is great to quickly obtain a list of candidate words which are valid for lexagrams or anagrams, there is much fun to be found in searching for words yourself! Changing the sequence of the letters in a phrase give our brains a fresh perspective on the situation. New words will seem to jump out after simply re-arranging the letters into a new pattern. Rearrange the letters carefully and find new words. Continue exploring by studying the sequences of letters in this name.
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In Summary
The most common animal word in her professional name is not related to primates… it is LION. In what ways did Jane Goodall demonstrate bravery and courage throughout her life?