Is this name pronounced Radio or R Dio? Since it is a music playlists site they are obviously playing off the word Radio. But how clever is it really, especially when there is already a Radio.com out there? In fact,…
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Gyazo Grows Like Crazy, even with Crazy Name
Gyazo is such an unusual name for an international handy software utility that the American product manager even made a little SoundCloud audio clip on how to pronounce it – gee ah zoh (with a hard g like in glee).…
Xbox One – Strange Name for 3rd Iteration
Just as well that XBox has been a successful gaming platform from Microsoft, because it sure has suffered more naming travails than usual – and travails are usual at Microsoft. First it had no name, as rumors of its impending…
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Why is the Golden Gate Red? And Other Naming Questions.
It is that time of year to have some fun with naming. While your creative team conscripts are waiting for their probably futile brainstorming session to start, give them these riddles as a warmup exercise: Why is it called the…
Is Fiat entry to North America now a Fait Accompli?
When Italian Automobile Factory of Turin initials were used to create FIAT in 1899 it didn’t last long until it became effectively a new word Fiat – especially in Italy. As professional namers we are very gun shy of initials…
Doing a double take on the awful Looxcie name
Sometimes I have to dig a little further to find a good name or name story to blog about. Other times, like now, I have a whole collection on standby for processing. But they will all have to wait as…
Zuzax really is a place in New Mexico on famed Route 66
I recently returned from a road trip to Texas and came back along Hwy 40 that parallels (or actually is) the old famed Route 66 that so many pioneers took to discover the West. Apart from long, boring freeways in…
Shorter Names don’t get lost in Nothing But Initials hell
Just when I was thinking about publishing my annual diatribe about how long names so easily get abbreviated to initials, and then you are lost in the morass of nothing but initials that are so hard and expensive to brand,…
Interesting names for home sites on the web
There are many real estate agencies across the USA, all of which have somehow found a name to use. Of course, most of these are fairly local geographically speaking, though they might even belong to one of the few national…
Strange Northern Names
What do the following names all have in common? [Hint: They have all been in the news this past week in connection with the same story] Yentna Skwentna Finger Lake Rainy Pass Rohn Nikolai McGrath Takotna Ophir Iditarod Shageluk Anvik…
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