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• 11 Ways to Play the Name Game

  October 21st, 2008 | Tags: names, naming, reference, web sites

  Call me goofy, but I loved singing “The Name Game” as kid: Meryl, Meryl, bo-beryl, Banana-fana fo-feryl Fee-fi-mo-meryl Meryl! Yeah, yeah… I know how some immature kids like to use names like Chuck and Mitch. I’m sure you’ve heard your share. I’ve always been fascinated with names, how they came to be, and their origins. So [...]

• Numbers as Brand Names

  October 14th, 2008 | Tags: Apple, brands, Mac, Microsoft, names

  TechCrunch reports that Microsoft calls its next operating system (the one after Vista) Windows 7. Mickey comments: I’d love to see them start using logical numbers again, but it doesn’t add up: Windows 3.1 (”Windows 3″) Windows 95 (4) Windows 98 (5) Windows ME/2000 (6) Windows XP (7) Windows Vista (8) Windows 7 (9?) I guess maybe if you call Windows 3.1 “Windows 1″ [...]

• Blog Naming

  January 3rd, 2008 | Tags: names, titles

  Ted Demopoulos and I had an interesting conversation about blog names back in 2006. He delves into the topic again with the following posts: My favorite blog name: His favorite is Escape from Cubicle Nation. He asks Seth Godin what he’d name his blog today if he were [...]

• Stupid Product Names

  November 17th, 2006 | Tags: brands, Business, names, products

  How do you pronounce “Casio’s G’zOne?” That’s what Strategic Name Development asks. Just the other day when I volunteered at my kid’s school book fair, a few of us were talking about Mo Willem’s Knuffle Bunny because we all love the Pigeon books. I thought it was pronounced “nuffle bunny” like “know.” The librarian thought [...]

• KFC New Famous Bowls

  August 25th, 2006 | Tags: Marketing, names, nintendo

  This Is Broken looks at KFC’s ad for its “NEW! KFC famous bowls.” The submitter correctly points out that you can’t be “new” and “famous” at the same time. One reader says games can become famous before they ever hit the market. True. Look at Nintendo’s Brain Age and Big Brain Academy. My mom was [...]

• Sharing Full Names

  August 3rd, 2005 | Tags: names, personal

  Glad to see it is possible to see a Meryl Evans promoted to a big job — Meryl Evans Promoted to Vice President of Administrative & Information Services at Electro Rent Corporation. Oh, it’s not me. Me a math major? Now that’s funny. Interestingly enough, Meryl went to college and worked in Texas. Too weird. [...]

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