[Corpora-List] phrase as trademark

[Trevor Jenkins]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, Geoffrey Sampson <grs2 at sussex.ac.uk> 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).

But then no Englishman would have contemplated calling his son Brooklyn
until the Beckhams' first child was so named after the place he was
conceived.

Regards, Trevor

<>< Re: deemed!


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