By BRUCE FRASSINELLI

tneditor@tnonline.comThe name of Lehigh County's coroner sounds perfect for the job: Scott Grim. By the same token, it would have been unlikely that a Stroudsburg new-car dealer, Art Jolley, could have ever been Monroe County coroner.Because of his name and the job he holds, Grim has an "aptonym," a person whose name and occupation or situation have a close or, perhaps, an ironic relationship. About 3,000 miles across the country, in Orange County, California, Deputy Coroner Richard Slaughter certainly has a potentially apt name, too.Whether a person with a certain name gravitates toward a profession that seems to link with the name has never been the subject of a definitive study, but the temptation of making such a link is compelling.For example, Cardinal Sin served as the archbishop of Manila in the Philippines from 1974-2003. In keeping with clergical aptonyms, certainly, there were more than a few snickers when Father Thyme (prounced ``time") said the traditional New Year's Eve Mass in Liege, Belgium.Then there is jailed former stockbroker Bernie Madoff (pronounced "made off" as in "He made off with all of our money").Here are other aptonyms I have encountered recently:* Dr. Wee is a urologist in Batavia, N.Y.* Terry Wolf is the wildlife director of Lion Country, a drive-through game preserve safari in Florida.* Early Wynn was frequently the opening-day pitcher for the Cleveland Indians.* Tommy Trotter is the one-time director of racing at Hollywood Park in California.* Soo Yoo (pronounced "sue you") is an attorney in New York City, but she said that she specifically didn't go into the litigation end of the profession because of her name. During her first day in law school, the professor hissed when he saw her name, "Is this some kind of a joke?"* John Kruk (pronounced "crook") is the treasurer for Oswego County, N.Y.* Dr. Faye Vowel is an educator from Western New Mexico University.* Dr. Frank Fish is a marine biologist and researcher at West Chester University.* Jonah Fisher was a British Broadcasting Corporation reporter who went on a Greenpeace expedition to get the big story of a Japanese whale hunt.* Walt Freese is Ben and Jerry's former CEO.* Donald Goodness was rector of the Church of the Ascension in New York City from 1972 until 1997.* Eric Hacker is a certified information systems security professional in the Boston area. He reports that on the application form for the job, one of the questions is: "Are you or have you ever been associated with hackers?" He said he had to explain his answer.If some of our well-known personalities had taken on other jobs, they, too, might show up on an aptonym list. Suppose David Letterman, for example, were a U.S. Postal Service worker, wouldn't that have been cool? It would have gotten our stamp of approval.(Bruce Frassinelli is a native of Summit Hill who lives in Schnecksville. He is an adjunct instructor at Lehigh Carbon Community College.)