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Some companies also match domain names to phone words (for instance, 1800-THRIFTY and the web site www.1800thrifty.com) to target phone and web users together. One brief practice was when the successive toll-free area codes were introduced (888, 877, 866, etc.), a business word or phrase would actually use one or more of the numbers in the area ...
Each of the digits 2 to 9, and sometimes 0, corresponded to a group of typically three letters. The leading two or three letters of a telephone number indicated the exchange name, for example, EDgewood and IVanhoe, and were followed by 5 or 4 digits. The limitations that these systems presented in terms of usable names that were easy to ...
These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same). Excluded are the numerous spellings which fail to make the pronunciation obvious without actually being at odds with convention: for example, the pronunciation / s k ə ˈ n ɛ k t ə d i / [ 1 ] [ 2 ] of ...
initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
A&M Records – Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss; A&W Restaurants – Roy Allen and Frank Wright; Abbott Laboratories – Wallace Calvin Abbott (1888) Abercrombie & Fitch – David T. Abercrombie and Ezra Fitch; Abrams Air Craft – Talbert Abrams; Abt Sportsline – Johann Abt; Adidas – Adi Dassler (Adolf Dassler) Aditya Birla Group – Ghanshyam ...
100 Girl Names That Start With "L" From Luna to Lucie, there are plenty of girl names that start with "L" for new parents to consider. Here are the top 100, according to the SSA: Luna. Layla. Lily ...
Laura Wattenberg, a name expert and author of the book "The Baby Name Wizard," says "T" names "peaked around the 1960s." "That was the time of Tina and Tammy, Timothy and Todd," Wattenberg tells ...
Note that not all combinations of two names are considered portmanteaus. Simple concatenation of two names (whether hyphenated or not) does not produce a portmanteau. Nor does a combinative form of one name plus the full name of another (examples: Eurasia, Czechoslovakia). These kinds of names are excluded from this list.