Comments on: Get the Microsoft Blews http://www.thenameinspector.com/get-the-microsoft-blews/ Tells you what makes names tick. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:41:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with "sketch") http://www.thenameinspector.com/get-the-microsoft-blews/#comment-32821 Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with "sketch") Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:57:27 +0000 http://www.thenameinspector.com/get-the-microsoft-blews/#comment-32821 I found "blog" an unpleasant enough word when I first heard it, though I rarely think about the sound of it anymore. You would expect a "blog" to live in a swamp, but its oddity has a certain charm. "Blews," on the other hand is just painful. I think I might actually like it if it were spelled differently, however. The portmanteau would be subtler, and the word more aesthetic. Blues. Bluez. Bleus. Bluz. Spelled as it is, the word looks faintly rude, not to mention obvious and uninspired. And here Microsoft usually has cool internal code names for things, but woefully pedestrian offical names. I found “blog” an unpleasant enough word when I first heard it, though I rarely think about the sound of it anymore. You would expect a “blog” to live in a swamp, but its oddity has a certain charm.

“Blews,” on the other hand is just painful. I think I might actually like it if it were spelled differently, however. The portmanteau would be subtler, and the word more aesthetic. Blues. Bluez. Bleus. Bluz. Spelled as it is, the word looks faintly rude, not to mention obvious and uninspired.

And here Microsoft usually has cool internal code names for things, but woefully pedestrian offical names.

]]>