[Corpora-List] phrase as trademark

Yorick Wilks Y.Wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk
Thu Feb 10 13:19:03 UTC 2011


No idea--I dont, because Im the only one I know. When I see your name do I associate "name of my son" or "brother of Cain and Abel"??
Association is a funny thing--very personal.
YW


On 10 Feb 2011, at 08:08, Seth Grimes wrote:

> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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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