[Corpora-List] phrase as trademark

[Dominic Widdows]

That would work with the Anglo-Saxon surnames theme - perhaps the next
granddaughter should be Trollope.

-Dominic

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Michael Rundell
<michael.rundell at lexmasterclass.com> wrote:
> actually Bristol is one of the less weird names in the Palin household,
> which includes her sons Track and Trig, and grandson (s. of Bristol) Tripp.
> Bit of a phonesthemic pattern here? Blark!
>
> Michael
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Angus B. Grieve-Smith"
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> To: <corpora at uib.no>
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 1:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] phrase as trademark
>
>
> On 2/10/2011 8:01 AM, 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!).
>
>    It's a bit different for each ethnic group - Sarah Palin's group
> seems to favor naming girls after cities and Anglo-Saxon surnames
> (Madison, Addison, Ashley, Taylor, Hailey).  But according to the Social
> Security Administration, "Bristol" as a girl's name jumped from being
> ranked greater than 1000 to being ranked - oops! - 666 in the year since
> Palin became known nationwide.
>
> http://socialsecurity.gov/OACT/babynames/
>
> --
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