[Corpora-List] phrase as trademark

Yorick Wilks Y.Wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk
Thu Feb 10 13:01:23 UTC 2011


It may be even odder than that: it is not only very rare in the US but is a boy's name, such as it is:
http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Bristol
The Palin clan have the sort of random approach to naming usually associated with minority groups in the US, but do not for one moment underestimate them --they havent gone away (alas!).
Yorick Wilks




On 10 Feb 2011, at 07:50, Geoffrey Sampson wrote:

> So Bristol Palin's name is even odder than I realized -- no Englishman
> would think of calling his daughter Bristol, since here (but presumably not
> in Alaska) the word is rhyming slang for a woman's breast (Bristol City =
> titty).
> 
> Geoffrey Sampson
> 
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