Judging books by their covers, or titles at least, the Bookseller magazine has recognised Bombproof Your Horse with an award for the oddest book title of the year for 2004. Previous winners include these classics:
Living With Crazy Buttocks,
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice,
Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality,
How to Avoid Huge Ships,
227 Secrets Your Snake Wants You to Know,
Celtic Sex Magic: For Couples, Groups and Solitary Practitioners,
Design for Impact: 50 Years of Airline Safety Cards, and
Hot Topics in Urology.
According to a report in the Guardian, the judges thought there were too many self-consciously titled entries, "presumably in a bid to emulate the 2003 champion, The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories."
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abnu on Saturday, January 29, 2005 @ 7:22 AM
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The fifth annual weblog awards recognize the best of the blogosphere. Exercise your democratic rights; you don't have to be an Iraqi to vote for the Bloggies!
Of particular interest to Wordlabbers is the category for "best tagline of a weblog." The nominees are:
Dooce, for "Not your average clenched-cheek sprint to the bathroom" although she's already changed her tagline to "Unleashing the Inner Monologue."
Surprisingly, there is no category for "best name for a weblog." But there are some blogworthy names nominated for Bloggies in other categories, including:
The art of sushi, in chocolate, has been perfected by Suedy's Koo-ki Sushi®. It's an inspirational little story of entrepreneurial success.
In 1994, Karen "Suedy" Sasaki saw an announcement in a magazine for a national cookie contest and wondered, "What can you do with a cookie that's never been done before?" Then, one day, when she was pressing a sticky cookie mixture into a pan, it reminded her of pressing rice onto nori (dried seaweed sheets) when she made sushi with her grandmother. That was it! A cookie-based "sushi" with chocolate and confections for the toppings and fillings. She asked her sister, Janice Murai, if she wanted to enter the contest with her. Luckily, they decided not to enter the contest with their "Koo-ki Sushi" but to explore the idea themselves.
The blogosphere is abuzz with all the latest Google News; the Picasa upgrade, the new Google Video Search, and their recent hiring of Firefox browser engineer, Ben Goodger. This hiring has refueled speculation that Google is developing its own internet browser, and some bloggers point to registration of the domain name Gbrowser.com as an indication of what's coming next, after Gmail. Googler might be their better name for the browser, don't you think? Either that, or they plan to rename him Ben Googler.
It's really old news that Google acquired Blogger, the web-based technology that enables virtually anyone to freely publish their written words on a blog. But more recently, Google purchased Picasa, an awesomely free photo management system, with its complementary web utility for posting photographs to blogs, sharing photos online, and talking about shared pictures over an integrated instant messenger.
Speaking of chatting, Google is reluctant to talk publicly about any plans for free phone service. Voice over Internet Protocol, with its insufferable VoIP acronym, is an alternative to landline telephone services. It's a growing business for new companies with names like Vonage and Skype, and some say it's the next big thing. But a spokeswoman for Google said recent reports about the company's possible interest in broadband telephony were "pure speculation" and she was unaware of any "imminent" move into the VoIP market.
Julian Hewitt, senior partner at Ovum, a telecoms consultancy, said: “From a telecoms perspective there is a big appeal in the fact that Google is a search operation — and of course the Google brand is a huge draw.”
Mr Hewitt said that a Google telephone service could be made to link with the Google search engine, which already conducts half of all internet inquiries made around the world. A surfer looking for a clothes retailer could simply find the web site and click on the screen to speak to the shop.
When Google positions its brand to own the conversation about internet telephony, what might they possibly call that?Hello!
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abnu on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 @ 1:07 AM
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Levi's new advert, planned for Valentine's Day, is an excerpt from Shakespeare's romantic comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream, complete with original Shakespearean dialogue, according to a report in the Telegraph.
Although the language is complex and archaic, Levi's says it is not worried that it will go over the heads of young jeans buyers.
"I think we underestimate young people today. Our research shows that they understand it immediately," said Kenny Wilson, brand president for Levi's Europe.
He said that Levi's chose A Midsummer Night's Dream as the basis for its new advertisement to be different and stand out: "It demonstrates independence and freedom of thought. Young people appreciate the fact that it's not the same as anything else on television."
Methinks it's not the same old tits and ass.
In the ad, Bottom exits a factory walking past a gang of older men wearing unfashionably high-waisted jeans. One of the men says, "Bottom, thou art changed, what do I see on thee?", as he grabs Bottom's loose fit 501s.
The focus switches to Titania, a waitress sweeping up in a cafe, who says: "What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?" She is mysteriously drawn out on to the street towards Bottom, exclaiming, "Mine eye is enthralled to thy shape". The ad ends with Titiana whispering to Bottom: "I love thee."
As is often the case with commercials, it's the outtakes that are really funny. Those conversant with A Midsummer Night's Dream will recall Bottom's quick-witted retort, "What do you see? you see an asshead of your own, do you?"
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Which begs the question, "What do YOU call your blog?" Elliott Back, a student at Cornell, did a lot of numbers work with computers to figure out what the most popular words are in the names of blogs.
The top word, used in 9.986 percent of the blogs surveyed was "blog." The next most popular, at 2.619 percent, is "life." Here's the top 10 words in a blog's name:
1. blog - 9.986% 2. life - 2.619% 3. weblog - 1.841% 4. world - 1.296% 5. from - 1.226% 6. journal - 1.139% 7. news - 1.087% 8. thoughts - 1.039% 9. with - 0.670% 10. daily - 0.660%
This leads me to conclude that any blog named, "My blog/journal/weblog with daily world news and thoughts from life!" will be a smash hit.
He jokes, of course, but it's an interesting exercise that highlights the point of naming and branding, which is to differentiate.
We had a little fun over the weekend, differentiating Jeremy Richey's Blawg with a new and improved tagline description to replace: "This blog contains opinions and information about law school, the legal community, U.S. law, and other related topics."
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abnu on Monday, January 24, 2005 @ 4:10 AM
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Full Moon names date back to Native Americans, of what is now the northern and eastern United States. Those tribes of a few hundred years ago kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full Moon.
These are the full moon names for 2005, derived from native traditions:
The Full Wolf Moon -- January 25
The Full Snow Moon -- February 23
The Full Worm Moon -- March 25
The Full Pink Moon -- April 24
The Full Flower Moon -- May 23
The Full Strawberry Moon -- June 22
The Full Buck Moon -- July 21
The Full Sturgeon Moon -- August 19
The Full Harvest Moon -- September 17
The Full Hunter’s Moon -- October 17
The Full Beaver Moon -- November 15
The Full Cold Moon -- December 15
European settlers followed their own lunar customs with crazy names. As a lunatic from the Great White North, I'm especially looking forward to getting some beaver tail in the nation's capital during The Full Beaver Moon, which is sometimes translated as The Full Moon Beaver because of our two official languages.
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abnu on Sunday, January 23, 2005 @ 9:16 AM
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Brett Yormark, the NASCAR executive who put together the $750 Million deal with Nextel, which is reported to be the largest sponsorship agreement in American sports marketing history, has been named CEO of the New Jersey Nets. It's a sign of the times that his responsiblities as the chief executive officer are based on a track record in sports marketing.
Yormark will lead the business and marketing operations of Nets Sports & Entertainment, LLC, including corporate sponsorships, marketing partnerships and ticket sales. Yormark also will be responsible for developing the business and strategic marketing for a new arena planned for Brooklyn.
Anticipating the Nets' move to Brooklyn in 2008-2009, what's especially interesting to us is his vision for new naming and branding opportunities, as stated in a recent interview.
"I think Brooklyn could be the biggest story in sports marking in 20 years," Yormark said. "Brooklyn is a brand in itself. I mean, this is ground-breaking stuff.
"I'm a salesman at heart. And when you think of naming rights for the new arena, it's not really about branding an arena. It's about branding a city."
It's surprising, when you think about it, that a such a naming and branding genius missed the mark here.
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abnu on Friday, January 21, 2005 @ 1:09 AM
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According to an exclusive report by the Sun newspaper in Britain, scientists at a hospital in Israel have invented a gadget to measure how horny you are.
Scientists have invented a sex machine that can measure how randy you are feeling.
The gadget, dubbed the hornometer, calculates whether a person feels fruity by studying electrical activity in the brain.
Patients are asked to watch erotic videos along with films of a non-sexy nature.
How hard could that be?
Wordlab scooped both Gizmodo and Engadget on this one. We stay awake all night so you don't have to.
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abnu on Thursday, January 20, 2005 @ 5:18 AM
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In the first half of the first month of 2005 there were 3,945 referrals to Wordlab from internet searches containing the word "screen" even though we don't give advice or help with screen names.
NOTE: Please keep all message posts within the realm of naming, branding and related advertising and marketing issues. Anything too far off-topic will be deleted, including all high-school election slogan requests, dating advice, or requests for new screen names. Try searching Google for other sites that can help you with those types of problems. Thank you.
The problem is that the Googlebot seems to find Wordlab the number one website for anyone searchng for screen name help, or who tells Google i need a new screen name.
But there are better sites than Wordlab, if you need a new sn. Just look at these:
Martin Luther King Jr. was born Michael King in Atlanta on Jan. 15, 1929, one of the three children of King Sr., a pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, and Alberta (Williams) King, a former schoolteacher. He was renamed "Martin Luther" when he was about 6 years old, as his father, then a prominent minister, also named Michael at birth, had changed his own name to Martin Luther. Martin Luther King Sr. called his son M.L. His name would become one of the most well-known names in American history.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the 100 most important people of the last century recognized by Time Magazine.
It is a testament to the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. that nearly every major city in the U.S. has a street or school named after him. It is a measure of how sorely his achievements are misunderstood that most of them are located in black neighborhoods.
Many Americans will remember Martin Luther King Jr. today by participating in service projects in their communities, honoring his legacy of tolerance, peace, and equality by meeting community needs and making the holiday "A day ON, not a day OFF."
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abnu on Monday, January 17, 2005 @ 2:36 AM
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During the past year, we've commented on Water Wars and noted the problems that the Coca-Cola Company had with its Dasani brand being tap water.
While all bottled waters try to conjure images of purity and refreshment, there are limits to what they can claim. Spring water, for instance, is water that comes from an underground formation and flows naturally to the surface of the earth. Purified water, which is essentially tap water that has gone through distillation or other filtering processes, cannot be called spring water or any of the other definitions, like mineral or artesian.
In 2003, Poland Springs, which is owned by Nestle, the largest water company in the country, agreed to pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed the company's water did not come from a spring but from well water. Despite offering $8 million in rebates and giving away $2.75 million in charitable contributions, Poland Spring contended that its water was properly labeled and the settlement did not require that the company change the way it markets its products.
In the recent article quoted above, from San Diego's Union-Tribune, Eric Olson of the National Resources Defense Council is quoted saying that bottled water labels still don't give consumers enough information to make informed choices. "For most water, you'd be hard pressed to tell where that water comes from because there is no labeling," he said.
During a roundtable with reporters, the President spoke about the "unintended consequences" of words, and made it somewhat clear whose responsibility it is to get it right.
"Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean," Bush said Thursday. "'Bring 'em on' is the classic example, when I was really trying to rally the troops and make it clear to them that I fully understood, you know, what a great job they were doing. And those words had an unintended consequence. It kind of, some interpreted it to be defiance in the face of danger. That certainly wasn't the case."
On July 2, 2003, two months after he had declared an end to major combat in Iraq, Bush promised U.S. forces would stay until the creation of a free government there. To those who would attack U.S. forces in an attempt to deter that mission, Bush said, "My answer is, Bring 'em on."
In the week after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush was asked if he wanted bin Laden, the terrorist leader blamed for the attacks, dead.
"I want justice," Bush said. "And there's an old poster out West, that I recall, that said, 'Wanted, Dead or Alive.'"
Recalling that remark, Bush told the reporters: "I can remember getting back to the White House, and Laura said, 'Why did you do that for?' I said, 'Well, it was just an expression that came out. I didn't rehearse it.'
"I don't know if you'd call it a regret, but it certainly is a lesson that a president must be mindful of, that the words that you sometimes say. … I speak plainly sometimes, but you've got to be mindful of the consequences of the words. So put that down. I don't know if you'd call that a confession, a regret, something."
It's definitely not an admission of any mistake. Certainly not an apology. Just, sort of a regret that you all didn't get what he meant.
Like the other "law of unintended consequences," it could be an eponymous law: Bush's Law. Whatever words a president uses, no matter how plainly he speaks, about half the country will misinterpretate him.
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abnu on Friday, January 14, 2005 @ 2:05 PM
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Some parents want names for their children that are unique. And some, in California, even name their children Unique. Today, psychologists might say, "You named him what?"
Today’s parents seem to believe they can alter their child’s destiny by picking the perfect—preferably idiosyncratic—name. (Destiny, incidentally, was the ninth most popular name for girls in New York City last year.) The current crop of preschoolers includes a few Uniques, with uncommonly named playmates like Kyston, Payton and Sawyer. From Dakota to Heaven, Integrity to Serenity, more babies are being named after places and states of mind. Names with alternative spellings are on the upswing, like Jaxon, Kassidy, Mikayla, Jazmine and Nevaeh (Heaven spelled backward), as are mix-and-match names such as Ashlynn and Rylan.
Naming experts might strongly disagree with each other whether a baby girl should be called Apple, but there's no denying it's a bit of a trend for parents to name their kids after well-known product brands. Just the other day, a woman gave birth to a baby in the parking lot of a McDonald's restaurant. "Of course everyone is like, 'Are you going to name him Ronald?'" said the mother, Ann McDonald.
Yahoo Serious? A Romanian couple, Nonu and Cornelia Dragoman, who met each other on the internet, had a virtual relationship for three months before seeing each other. One thing led to another, and they named the baby Lucian Yahoo; one name after the mother's father and the other from the internet search site that brought them together. Sweet, but child psychologists might say that's child abuse and the kid could grow up weird. Ya, who would like name their kid Lucian?
It's easy for parents to get carried away with themselves when naming their offspring. Jay Solo and the Accidental Jedi might easily have been tempted to call their firstborn son Han. As it turned out, their newborn girl was spared the likely moniker, Leia Organa, in favour of a traditional name, Sadie, which they picked in strict adherence to these baby naming conventions.
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abnu on Thursday, January 13, 2005 @ 5:29 PM
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Naming a company is not like pulling a rabbit out of a hat—but there is a kind of magic to it.
Looking back, we're taking a magical mystery tour of internet company names, thanks to Google's 20 year Usenet Timeline. It's DejaNews all over again.
Our trip though the jungle of Internet Company names begins with a Usenet message from some guy named Jeff Bezos, who was hiring for an unknown startup back in the summer of 1994. Nobody knew then that, only five years later, he'd be Time Magazine's Person of the Year. He was just some clever kid fresh out of school (okay, Princeton) with an idea he could make history on the internet with a company he called Cadabra Inc.
"What do you call your company?" the VC lawyer asked.
"Cadabra, like abracadabra, only shorter," said the young man.
"Sounds like cadaver," said the lawyer, who'd seen a lot of startups die, for want of a better word, "You'd better change the name."
Amazon...dot com, yeah, that's it. He could be, like, King of Amazon. With some magic omen, the signature on his Usenet message a few weeks earlier had been a quotation of Xerox PARC's Alan Kay, "It's easier to invent the future than to predict it."
The rest is history. I mean, what became of that Cadabra name? Two other geeky students had created their own online search tool. Soon, they were in Silicon Valley Business Journal.
While students at Stanford University, Narinder Singh and Don Geddis set up an online service that allowed users to search for rental housing by inputting criteria such as the number of bedrooms, location and price range. The site, search.tesserae.com, includes classified advertisements culled from newspapers throughout the Bay Area. It was the first search engine of its kind and is still available for use.
In 1997, after graduating from Stanford, Messrs. Singh and Geddis developed similar technology that enabled users to search online for real estate. They decided to license the technology and named their company Tesserae after the square tiles Romans used to make mosaics because the firm was the first to "glue together applications" to enable people to search different databases, from different Internet sites, simultaneously...
By 1999, they had convinced everyone that needed convincing: Tesserae would reinvent itself as an online search engine and would no longer license its technology to other companies. The company changed its name to the catchier Cadabra and changed its product from housing to another hot item in the valley: computer and electronic equipment.
"The name is like Yahoo or Excite," Mr. Singh said. "You've got to have an easy to understand brand."
Like, Yahoo! It wasn't long before Cadabra got bought by GoTo.com, an IdeaLab company that made a name for itself when it sued Go.com into a lucrative infringement settlement that virtually shut down the Disney portal. Go figger.
And then all of a sudden it was so not cool for a big company that needed money to be a dotcom, and it became necessary for GoTo.com to come up with a new name for itself. Overture, the name was "conceived internally" according to the press release pdf announcing the new name.
Overture was chosen based on its ability to communicate the company's compelling advertiser and affiliate partner benefits. One definition of "overture" is an introduction, making the name a metaphor for the targeted introductions the company facilitates...
To make a long story short, Overture acquired some more big names in search like Fast, and the progenitor of search engines, AltaVista, in some cases for less than their domain names once sold for. And then, Overture itself was acquired. Yahoo!
By the way, cadabra.com is for sale for $5,000 now, if anyone wants a name with a story. Bezos? Jeff Bezos? Anyone?
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abnu on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 @ 2:04 AM
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Maybe it would be an effective Subject Line for an erectile dysfunction drug spamming business.
At least we got a dollar's worth of giggles out of the new brand for the state of Kansas. The Kansas Brand Image Task Force, the Kansas Department of Commerce and a highly paid Lawrence-based advertising agency introduced the newest attempt to unseat "I Love NY" as the next great branding theme for a state.
The group was looking for "Virginia is for Lovers," but created "Kansas: As big as you think." Several of us reacted with a collective, "Huh?" More than one has asked if the motto is the same as Texas'. For the record, it is not. The Longhorn state's official motto is actually, "Texas: It's more than you think."
Read the rest of this opinion by Stephen Wade for The Morning Sun.
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abnu on Monday, January 10, 2005 @ 7:25 PM
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Toyota Canada is abandoning plans for the "Special Edition Celica Tsunami" according to a report by CTV News.
Exactly one year ago, on Jan. 7, 2004, Toyota announced the name for the car, calling it "the new wave of bold style."
Its press release at the time noted that "tsunami is the Japanese word for tidal wave."
Actually, the word "tsunami" transcribes "harbor wave" from the Japanese: tsu harbor and nami wave. But that's not the point.
Last year, Tsunami was considered an excellent name for a product or company. But, in the wake of the most devastating natural disaster in memory, the word has acquired extremely negative emotive connotations in the minds of everyone. So, it's probably not a great idea, now, to name a new product tsunami.
But what if yours is one of thoseproducts or companies that has been riding a wave of brand recognition on the name Tsunami, seldom heard by your customers in its natural context? Tsunami Computing has a powerful domain name, tsunami.com, which is good and bad. It's getting all kinds of web traffic these days; not the traffic the company website was designed to satisfy. Most people are coming to their website not looking for computing services. Tsunami Computing certainly wouldn't want to appear to be capitalizing on the disaster for their own brand recognition. So, the company has introduced a Tsunami Charity Drive landing page at the tsunami.com internet address. Good idea poorly executed.
Is it just me, or does this statement seem, perhaps, a bit arrogant?
We’ve seen tens of thousands of people passing through our site these days and we think it would be good to remind them that they can actually help.
It is probably a well-intentioned gesture by Tsunami Computing, but a "charity drive" is poorly conceived that positions the company and its web developer in the role of recipients of public funds for redistribution to the named relief agencies. With corporate branding in mind, there are better ways to encourage and facilitate charitable donations to help the victims of the tsunamis.
Thoughtlessly, for the Tsunami Computing brand, the page includes links to Flickr images of publicly posted content beyond the control of the company. Many photographs hosted on Flickr with the tag /tsunami might not even relate to the tsunamis for which relief funds are being solicited. Some could negatively affect the company's image. Similarly, a link to Getty stock photography for all kinds of images tagged "tsunami" is provided for images for the press—really? Even the link to the US Department of State, regarding the adoptions, advises: "However, at this time, it is not possible for U.S. citizens to adopt these children, for several reasons." At every turn, it seems, the page gets off on the wrong foot.
Unfortunately, the new landing page seems to be contrived in at least four places to give credit to the website designer, ELRO Corporation, with hot links and corporate name text positioning more prominent than their client's name. In that regard, the designer might appear to be capitalizing on the tsunami disaster, even at the expense of the client whose corporate website has been hidden behind this new landing page at their domain name. It could have been done much better for the client.
It remains to be seen whether Tsunami Computing decides, in the end, to change its name. Tsunami, like holocaust, might now be one of those rare exceptions to Igor's theory of negativity in naming and branding.
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abnu on Sunday, January 09, 2005 @ 1:50 AM
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A couple of first-graders were caught trying to have sex at school. According to reports in the Indianapolis Star, the boy and girl somehow slipped off unnoticed and ducked underneath a stairwell. There, they were interrupted when older students walking up the stairs heard noises and investigated. The two had removed some clothing but weren't engaged in sexual intercourse, district officials said.
The names of the two children have not been made public. But the girl and boy, who were released to their parents, received five-day suspensions and could be booted from classes at School 69 for the rest of the year.
"It's extremely troubling because of their young ages. I have never in my life experienced anything like this," said School 69 Principal Gary W. Davis, a 22-year educator.
John Hostettler, the Congressman representing the 8th district of Indiana, has been convinced by local religious groups to introduce legislation in the House that would change the name of School 69 to a more moral sounding number. Wordlab scooped the Hoosier Gazette by getting this story first!
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abnu on Saturday, January 08, 2005 @ 1:43 AM
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That's the question posed by a new PBS Special that premiered this week, with an informative and entertaining website.
Interestingly, many of us consider our way of speaking to be neutral. It's hard for us to hear features of our own speech that might be obvious to people who speak other dialects. Linguists use the term dialect to mean 'a variety shared by a group of speakers.' By this definition, everyone speaks a dialect, not just Andy Griffith and Scarlett O'Hara. Bus drivers, teachers, your neighbors, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and you (whether you know it or not) speak a dialect, too.
Not everyone who speaks English is comfortable with that, especially when new words evolve in the language.
Friction over the American propensity to coin words and phrases dates back to the American Revolution. Today, the transatlantic barbs continue to fly. In 2000, while speaking at an event promoting a massive effort to increase the export of British English teachers and English language curricula abroad, Britain's Prince Charles was asked by a reporter to comment on the rival form of the language spoken in the United States. Prince Charles sniffed that Americans: "invent all sorts of new nouns and verbs and make words that shouldn't be... We must act now to ensure that English, and that to my way of thinking means British English, maintains its position as the world language."
CNN has ended its relationship with the conservative commentator Tucker Carlson and will shortly cancel its long-running daily political discussion program, "Crossfire," the new president of CNN, Jonathan Klein, said last night, as reported by the New York Times.
Mr. Klein said he wanted to move CNN away from what he called "head-butting debate shows," which have become the staple of much of all-news television in the prime-time hours, especially at the top-rated Fox News Channel.
"CNN is a different animal," Mr. Klein said. "We report the news. Fox talks about the news. They're very good at what they do and we're very good at what we do."
Mr. Klein specifically cited the criticism that the comedian Jon Stewart leveled at "Crossfire" when he was a guest on the program during the presidential campaign. Mr. Stewart said that ranting partisan political shows on cable were "hurting America."
Mr. Klein said last night, "I agree wholeheartedly with Jon Stewart's overall premise."
The blogosphere is buzzing with the news that Becks' Bimmer— a very posh 1996 M3—sold on eBay for about US$170,000. The seller is beaming; not so, the previous owner.
A car fanatic who sold David Beckham’s BMW for £16,000 less than two months ago is kicking himself after it fetched more than £90,000 on eBay this week, he said today.
This is a great story to tell your friends over a few pints, or blog about on the interweb, if that's what you do with cool news like this. Just don't call it a Beamer.
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abnu on Wednesday, January 05, 2005 @ 3:01 PM
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It's not an original idea, as rubber tires were airless before Dunlop invented the pneumatic tyre. However, Bibendum, the Michelin Man, has come up with a new word to describe their prototypical airless tire. It's called a tweel, combining the English words tyre and wheel. Michelin is a French company, of course, but the tweel should not be confused with a tuile, which is also pronounced "tweel."
Tweel is not an original neologism. It's also a surname, as in Ronald Tweel of the law firm, Michie Hamlett Lowry Rasmussen & Tweel. Never heard of him?
RONALD R. TWEEL , who is a partner, began practicing with the firm in 1975. His practice consists of 80% family law, with the remainder of his practice consisting of representing Muhammed Ali and general litigation.
It's unclear if his client is theMuhammad Ali, or not, assuming a lawyer would notice if a celebrity client's name were misspelled on the law firm's website.
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abnu on Tuesday, January 04, 2005 @ 4:16 PM
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