Ticket Spitter

[Joel S. Berson]

I should have waited a little longer before replying to Nancy
Friedman -- Jeff dissipates my puzzlement.  ("Parking" magazine in
1955 wrote "the new 'Ticket Splitter' ", calling it new, putting the
name in quotes, but also capitalizing it.)

Joel

At 8/11/2010 01:45 PM, Jeff Prucher wrote:
>The (or at least a) registered name is, in fact, "ticket spitter":
>first registration (1957): http://bit.ly/bPg49x
>current registration (2002): http://bit.ly/cwTpeA
>
>Note also the "first use in commerce" of 1955, which aligns with Joel's
>findings.
>
>Jeff Prucher
>  Editor, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction. Now in
>paperback!
>http://www.jeffprucher.com
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>
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> > If  the registered name is "Smart System Transport
> > Ticket Spitter," then it may  be that "Ticket Spitter" alone is
> not necessarily
> >a trademark, right?
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