jueves, 30 de mayo de 2013

WHAT´S BEHIND A NAME?

Many new words have evolved through the growth in technology:

EMOTICONS,WEBLIOGRAPHY,TECHNOBABBLE,UPLOAD,DOWNLOAD,etc...

Language is constantly evolving. What products do the following brands/trademarks/nouns represent?:

AVON

BAXTERS

BIRD´S EYE

BIRO

BOVRIL , BOYCOTT

CADBURY

CARDIGAN

CVC

THORNTON

HERSHEY

HEINZ

HOOVER

HORLICKS

HOVIS

HP

IKEA 

JEANS

KELLOGG´S

LEA & PERRINS

WORCESTERSHIRE/ H.P.

LEGO

MAXWELL HOUSE

MECCANO

NICOTINE

ROBERTSON´S

RUGBY

SANDWICH

SUV 

SHRAPNEL

VICKS VAPOUR RUB

WRIGLEY´S, WELLINGTON

YALE

 

 PRACTICE YOUR  CREATIVITY IN MAKING UP A NEW(ORIGINAL)BRAND NAME FOR AN IMAGINARY NEW PRODUCT. WHICH CAR SOUNDS FASTER "TARIN" OR "PARIN"?
famous crosslinguistic gaffes: chevy NOVA, means No GO
READ ZERIMAR backwards...

What did these famous people give the English language?

Christopher Columbus, Robert W. Bunsen, King Mausolus,

Louis A. de Bougainville,Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac,

Andre Mª Ampere, Count Alessandro Giuseppe Volta,

J. Watt,Michael Faraday, George Washington G. Ferris,

Samuel Augustus Maverick, Dr. George Horace Gallup,

Louis Doberman,Alphonse F. de Sade, Leopold Von S. Masoch

Alzheimer,Parkinson, Addison,Williams,Down´s..

Friedridch A. Mesmer, Rudolph Diesel, William Hoover

Etienne de Silhouette,J.I. Guillotin,Molotov,W.Lynch,

Jean Nicot,Jules Leotard,Giovanni J. Casanova, Sir George

Everest, Isaac Newton, Henry Shrapnel, Alexander Garden..

J.B. Stetson, Trilby O´ferrall,Samuel Plimsoll,etc....

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