Posted in Blend Names, Company Names, Enigmatic Names, Good Names, Hard Names, Metonymy, Names on March 16th, 2007 11 Comments »
The name Skype combines the familiar and the peculiar. Though there’s that unmistakable word sky in there, the end of the name is a bit of a mystery. On the Skype forum, an employee reveals that the name was derived from the expression sky peer-to-peer, which was shortened to Skyper and then to Skype. So [...]
Posted in Blog Names, Compound Names, Hard Names, Names on January 19th, 2007 4 Comments »
TechCrunch is about as hardnosed as a name can be, both in sound and in meaning. Has this helped to establish Michael Arrington as a rainmaker of Web 2.0? Who can say? What makes this name so badass? First, there’s the no-nonsense word tech, which tells you in no uncertain terms what Mr. Arrington will [...]
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