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RE: [RC] Embarrassing moments in horse names - David LeBlanc



Maryanne Stroud Gabbani said:


Names are always problematic. I remember a beloved English 
teacher in California who named her daughter Rana, a 
perfectly respectable Arabic name that means "frog" in 
Spanish 


There's some famous examples of this, and large companies engage in name
searches because of it. For example, Exxon used to be Enco. I've been told
the Enco means "broken car" in Japanese.

Another good one is the Cheverolet Nova - in Spanish No va means "won't go"
- guess that one didn't sell too well under that name 8-)



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Re: [RC] Embarrassing moments in horse names, Maryanne Stroud Gabbani