OT Naming things (was Metrical Stress, Feet, et al....)

Padraic wrote:
> I "feel" absolutely no compunction or good reason
> to personalise or anthropomorphise a computer.
>
...or any other object.

Neither do I, and <opinion!!> find it a rather whimsical practice.  I have
enough trouble coming up with names for cats...

My sister and her then-husband called their car "The Wombat".  I can't
imagine why.

Friends termed one of my cars long ago "The Funeral Car", another one "The
White Heap".  I did call one "The Gas Chamber", but that's not the same as
calling them Ernie or Maude.