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1. Any name formed by the omission of the initial syllable of a word or phrase.

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• blog (web log)

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1. Any brand name created as the direct opposite of another name.

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• The Uncola (7-Up)

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1. Any company, product, service, etc. that has not yet been given a name or a code name.
2. Any brand name so bland that it blends into the crowd.

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1. A name with a distinctively masculine tonality.

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• Red Bull brand energy drink

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• gynonym

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1. Any acronym or abbreviation that is so well established that its origin is no longer widely understood.

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• scuba (self-contained underwater breathing apparatus)

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1. Any brand name whose use is chronologically incongruous.

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• Orville Redenbacher
• Roman Meal

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• Greek ana- + chronos ‘time’

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1. The blending of two or more meanings into one brand name.

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• Dodge Caravan

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• Old French amalgame < Late Latin amalgama < Greek malagma ‘soft mass’

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1. Any brand name consisting of some combination of letters and numbers.

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• Lexus ES300 sedan

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1. Any brand name which includes a reference, explicit or implicit, to a culture’s classical literature, or any indirect reference to pop culture.

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• Honda Odyssey

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• Late Latin allusion ‘a playing with’

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1. Any brand name consisting of two or more conjoined words, each beginning with the same phoneme.

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• MCI’s Friends and Family

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• Latin ad- ‘to’ + littera ‘letter’