Saturday, June 28, 2025

Smith (x5)

The cryptic meaning of the “O”, is eau, French for water

The “Smith Surname” pattern cluster cropping up on Wikipedia’s Deaths in 2025 site didn’t pass me by.  

It’s a popular name, so why bother, … although two on the same day,…and then there’s the notable Smith  in my neck of the woods, who I have had the displeasure of knowing— the now Chief Justice Deborah K. Smith, who is the subject of many of my posts.  So maybe I should investigate.  Butt I didn’t. 

And then another notable Smith passed away two days later along with another whose name jives :

Virgil C. Smith (July 4, 1947 – June 23, 2025)  77, Senate (1988–2000)

Now THAT is a definite Twin Heads UP!!  July 4th being a prominent day as this blogs Header above  indicates: 

Of the first "5" US Presidents, 3 died on July 4th: Jefferson "5" hours before Adams, and Monroe "5" years later on the "55th" Independence Day.

The other notable person who I mention above, and who passed away on the same day as Smith: 

Courtenay Griffiths, 69, Jamaican-born British barrister

The name Courtenay is an addition to the “Word in Name” pattern cluster , that provides us with the following words “our”, “court”, “ten”, “nay”.  With “court” being the obvious one. 

This is a  prompt to investigate the Smith Surname Wikipedia page.  Since the list is long, I limited my search using the formula, and the first one we arrive at: 

Arkell Smith ( (born October 25, 1999), American gridiron football

His first and last name are additions to the “Word in Name” pattern cluster, and so we have “ark” and “mit”.  AND, it most certainly didn’t pass me by— the date of October 25th cropping up in timely fashion yet AGAIN!!   Note from my recent post re: 

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Picasso’s Ass and Buffon’s Buffoon

 my ex-partner (we were together 27 years), three of her family members were born on October 25, and then the two children of my cousin, died in a car accident on October 25th.  You can search this blog for related posts if you want to learn more.

I decided to go back through Wikipedia’s Deaths in 2025 site to investigate the surnames of the others who died on the same day as the three Smith’s re: June 20, 21 and 23.  Perhaps their surnames contain cryptic words/phrases that communicate.  On doing so, I notes a “River/Water Theme” pattern cluster.  Note the following: 

At first I only noted the “Water Theme” pattern cluster in the names Damman (dam up water), Raines (rains down water), Boyle (boil water )and Bathish(bath water), and then the surname Bhend (river water bends)I threw into the mix,  because “river bend” is a common phrase, that I believe is key aspect of this cryptic communication, … also because rivers are dammed; rains swell rivers.  

So, going back to the name Arkell Smith, I can understand the “ark”— that jives with water and river (aka Noah’s ark), but how does “mit” fit in?!  When I did a google search on the word “mit”, the search engine brought up MIT— the renown university, so let’s see what comes of following that lead.  On the MIT wikipedia page, the second person mentioned stands out: 

 Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974)

TODAY is June 28th, the anniversary of his death, and so an addition to the “Timely” pattern cluster.  This is another prompt for us to continue investigating.  And then I noticed this image showing MIT’s location on a map.  I right at a BEND IN A RIVER!!


I then note this excerpt from MIT’s wikipedia page: 

MIT's 166-acre (67.2 ha) campus in the city of Cambridge spans approximately a mile along the north side of the Charles River basin

Our next lead is the Charles River wikipedia page, where the following excerpt stood out: 

Prior to the arrival of Puritan colonists in the 1620s, Captain John Smith… 

 WHOA!! The surname Smith crops up yet again, … a definite twin heads upp, note from his wiki page: 

John Smith (c. 1579 – 21 June 1631)

WHOA (x2)… he died on June 21st, the same day as two of the four mentioned above who passed away last week : 

So WOW!!  And now we have the 11th day cluster…, that brings to mind two notable 11th days: 

The terrorist attack on US occurring on September 11th and Remembrance Day occurring on November 11th.   Hmmm, war theme?!

Etymology usually plays a role in the cryptic communication, and so one of the things I found interesting is that the word “smitten” has “mitten” in it… and “mit”, note the etymology:

smitten(adj.)

mid-13c., "struck hard, afflicted, visited with disaster," past-participle adjective from smite. Sense of "inspired with love" is from 1660s on the notion of "suddenly and powerfully affected."

mitten(n.)

late 14c., mitain (from mid-13c. in surnames) "a glove, a covering for the hand," especially "a covering for the hand, differing from a glove in not having a separate covering for each finger, the thumb only being separated," from Old French mitaine "mitten, half-glove" (12c.) and from Medieval Latin mitta, both of uncertain origin; both perhaps from Middle High German mittemo, Old High German mittamo "middle, midmost" (reflecting the notion of "half-glove"), or from Vulgar Latin *medietana "divided in the middle,"

ark(n.)

Middle English arke, from Old English earc, Old Northumbrian arc, mainly meaning Noah's, but also the Ark of the Covenant (the coffer holding the tables of the law in the sanctum sanctorum), from Latin arca "large box, chest"

arc(n.)

late 14c., "part of a curved line," originally in reference to the sun's apparent motion across the sky, from Old French arc "bow, arch, vault" (12c.), from Latin arcus "a bow, arch," from Proto-Italic *arkwo- "bow." 

Hmmm, arc and bend.  

Note todays definitions:  

  • The word "mit" in English can have a few different translations in French, depending on the context. It can refer to a baseball mitt (gant de baseball), or a mitten (mitaine). In other cases, it might be a shortened form of "mettre" (to put), or related to the word "mite" (moth).  

  • The English root mit comes from a Latin word that means 'to send. '

The “moth” reminds me of the famous peppered moth:  Peppered moth evolution

I’ll leave it at that, butt if you want to add your own tou sense worth, feel free to leave a comment. 

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