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Wordlab is THE naming and branding community. Join and get free name suggestions for your naming projects from other members + great automated name generators.

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Joined April 2009
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“Lobster,” “Gronk,” “Brady”: What Bostonians Are #Naming Their Dogs ow.ly/PqlS50vuy9v

"Lobster," "Gronk," "Brady": What Bostonians Are Naming Their Dogs, According to Data

City documents give us some insight into the minds of local pet owners.

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Apparently in South Africa the heads and feet of chicken are a big delicacy - check out this #product #name (via Cal biology prof and @MVZUCB Jim McGuire):
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Nature word of the day: OOGRAPHY 'tracing the outline of a bird egg' #languagemaking
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@Wordlab Happy to find and start following you! You might also enjoy my book on word creation, languagemakingnature.com!

Language Making Nature

A handbook of word-making tools and insights for writers, artists, and thinkers.

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The @washingtonpost review of Don Kulick's A DEATH IN THE RAINFOREST alludes to the "inventive swearing" in a dying language used in a village in Papua New Guinea. washingtonpost.com/outlook/a… Check out @StanCarey's @stronglang post for the unexpurgated swears. stronglang.wordpress.com/201…
Review | As a language dies, who will mourn? Should anyone?

Review | As a language dies, who will mourn? Should anyone?

Anthropologist Don Kulick records changes in a remote village’s way of life — and his own impact.

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"When it began covering the beatnik phenomenon, the mainstream press invaded the beats’ personal space, and such space was crucial to a countercultural figure like my dad.”––an excerpt from @TamTamBooks' memoir we published recently via @lithub lithub.com/dont-you-dare-cal…
Don’t You Dare Call Me a Beatnik

Don’t You Dare Call Me a Beatnik

Compared with the shack in Beverly Glen, our residence in San Francisco, at 707 Scott Street, appeared to be a mansion. We had the bottom floor and various interesting people rented the upstairs. M…

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Clutch@clutch_co21 Oct 2015
Naming a Business in 2015: New Clutch study on recent naming and domain name trends! #naming buff.ly/1M8BIPh
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Extensive interview covering many aspects of brand #naming with Zinzin founder Jay Jurisich bit.ly/1GTyPKx
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Drink in the best pun bar and pub names atlasobscura.com/articles/dr…
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"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." RIP #YogiBerra (1925-2015) #yogism
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JetBlue to Delta: Leave “Humanity” Alone bloom.bg/1WagMbG. Echoes of “Silicon Valley": xitter.gq/ZinzinLive/status/6452…
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The #Hellastorm is raining #hashtags & memes! #Stormzilla #Stormageddon #Stormpocalypse #Rainpocalypse #CAstorm
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Charlie Rose discusses technology with himself: "Charlie Rose, by Samuel Beckett" youtube.com/watch?v=LFE2CCfA… #meta
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#Putin on the Ritz: When it #Ukraine's it pours. So #Crimea River.
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Zinzin@ZinzinLive6 Feb 2014
Zang Tumb Tuuum. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Bombardment, 1915, Private collection. #art #language #futurism
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Zinzin@ZinzinLive3 Jun 2013
Beautiful! Stephen Fry on language, with kinetic typography bit.ly/11Sq1o6 Created by @RogersCreations @stephenfry
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Presidential Nicknames 1789 to Present bit.ly/x0wJG1 | See also: United States Presidential Pet Names bit.ly/TsYOhz #naming
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Zinzin@ZinzinLive5 Nov 2012
Election special: United States Presidential Pet Names 1789 to Present bit.ly/TsYOhz #naming
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Nicknames and slang of the San Francisco Giants through history bit.ly/WK2L8H Go #Giants #WorldSeries #naming #nicknames #slang
Nicknames and slang of the San Francisco Giants | Zinzin

Nicknames and slang of the San Francisco Giants | Zinzin

In honor of our local team, the San Francisco Giants, and their amazing run to 2010, 2012, and 2014 World Series victories, I've put together an extensive

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Sorry @viveksingla, but we don't work for free. Give the free naming site Wordlab a try: wordlab.com/ @wordnik
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