[Corpora-List] phrase as trademark

[Yorick Wilks]

whoops--remark below could be misinterpreted! I meant of course apparently random approach to naming IN ENGLISH from the point of view of the majority of US English speakers! (pheew!)
YW


On 10 Feb 2011, at 08:01, Yorick Wilks wrote:

> 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
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> 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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