[Corpora-List] phrase as trademark

Seth Grimes grimes at altaplana.com
Thu Feb 10 13:08:44 UTC 2011


I wonder what proportion of Corpora list members read the tail of your 
message and then your signature --

> underestimate them --they havent gone away (alas!).
> Yorick Wilks

-- and thought of Hamlet?

 						Seth

On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, 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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