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How about a video on how musicians/ actors got their stage names?
Was it "The Ridge" or " NordVPN"?
Rejected names for professional sports teams would be interesting (and plentiful!)
A restaraunt:
"Can I have a coke?"
"Is Brad OK?"
"Who's Brad?"
2021: "What's a restaurant?"
@@SakuraNyan konnichiwa sakura
It's also funny how Twitter could have been a combination of Twitch and Jitter.
Speaking of literary what-if's: In the first draft of "The Hobbit", Tolkien named the wizard character Bladorthin, while Gandalf was used for the leader of the dwarves (since it's actually a dwarf name in the Edda).
Bladder thin lmao
That would have been a weird name for Germans, because it reads as bla dort hin which means (put) bla over there.
Anyone else notice that the sign Animated Patrick held up in the end was promoting NordVPN?
I was just about to comment on that...
I was about to comment this exact thing
Why is NordVPN present in every UA-cam video?
Every single time I hear: "This video is sponsored by the rich."
Technically most sponsors are by rich people
The city of Portland Oregon had a dispute when it was first being named. The two founders wanted to either name it Portland after Portland Maine, or Boston after Boston Massachusetts. It was ultimately decided by a coin flip and Portland won.
St. Petersburg in Florida could have been named Detroit. It was a decision between adopting the name of the Russian city and that of the Michigan city.
Wish I could remember names of settlers, either I think would have made nice name, but portland oregon somewhat alliterative
Any chance multnomah stadium being restored to portland beavers for the seattle rainiers to play and the hardware store ad on the rightfield line
Thought saintpetersburg was oldest european city in north america, so no michigan in 1500s, but how would saint petersburg be spanish, maybe I want saint augustine
@@paulisaacson6044 Saint Augustine, on the opposite Florida coast (Atlantic) from St. Petersburg (Gulf of Mexico), was the first PERMANENT European settlement in North America (across the state line from Alabama, the Spanish settled in what is now the Gulf Coast city of Pensacola a few decades earlier, but it was abandoned and resettled after St. Augustine). Today it has the nickname Ancient City (Jericho, Israel is laughing), and the region is nicknamed the First Coast (to be settled), but St. Augustine is now a distant (~30 miles) suburb of Jacksonville, which was originally called Cowford, after the narrow spot in the St. John’s River (near today’s John T. Alsop, or Main Street, bridge) where cattle could swim across.
St. Petersburg, on the other hand, was founded by Russian immigrants about 1896-7, and named for the famous name-flipping city in Russia. Like its Biblical namesake, it has a healthy (mostly sport) fishing industry.
@@paulisaacson6044 “Portland Oregon” is not alliterative after all as the two words begin with different letters lol. The term you’re looking for instead is “assonance!” Which is where the vowel sounds are similar instead of the consonants required for alliteration.
Re: Starbucks. The Nantucket families mentioned in 'Moby Dick' are based on real families. One of them is the Folger family. Three of their sons moved to San Francisco in the mid-19th Century. One started up the Folger's Coffee Company.
6:25-6:28 The Facebook's former name called FaceMash from 2003-2004.
I know that from "The Social Network"
Facemash was a completely different site that was less of a social network and more of a game.
Do you have any evidence to back this up because, the Google article
about Facebook quoted that FaceMash was the predecessor to Facebook.
www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/04/11/channeling-the-social-network-lawmaker-grills-zuckerberg-on-his-notorious-beginnings/
This article says that Facemash was just a prank website that he made to compare pictures of girls. It didn't have the same features as the current Facebook.
The comic strip “Snuffy Smith,” about a mountain man in Appalachia and his family and neighbors, has been in US newspapers for many years, at least since this Baby Boomer first started reading the comics, probably before WWII or earlier. A character named Barney Google has occasionally dropped by to visit, and at one time the title of the strip contained both their names. So I’m wondering:
Did the cartoonist sue over the use of the name Google? Or was the current owner of the rights to the comic strip paid off?
Also, in the sixties there was a comedy song in the record stores and on some radio stations with the title “Barney Google.” The song mentions his “goog-goog-googly eyes,” which is consistent with the way Barney Google was drawn. This suggests that “google” may have been a common noun in the past, meaning wide eyed.
A group of surgeons actually published a book in the early 1980s promoting facial reconstructive surgery called "The Face Book." I bought a copy of it a few years ago in a thrift shop. It cost $1. Yep, I bought Face Book for $1.
Actually 'pepsi', sounds exactly like the root word of 'dyspepsia', which is the noun 'πέψη' (pepse), meaning digestion.
And this is actually the etymology provided by Wikipedia
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Electric Boogaloo.
@@Cyber_kumo hahaha no
There was so many surprises in this video, especially the Twitter and IPhone. Great video 😊👍
"Cargo House" would've turned everyone off
Car no go house. Car go road.
IDK Cargo House Coffee has a certain ring to it. Probably a local shop in a town that has a connection to the shipping industry.
@@crystalwolcott4744 Well, Seattle is on the Puget Sound, and there's lots of cargo ship docks. It would work.
Fun Fact. In the US there is a small store chain called Christmas Tree Shop that sell mainly Decor stuff for the home.
If Starbucks was named something else then it wouldn't have been blessed by Shrek 2
Haven’t had any of ur vids in my sub box or recommended for months. At least I’ve got something to binge now
"Revolver, commonly thought of as one of The Beatles best albums."
Me and my fiancee in unison: "By WHO?!"
No, by The Beatles :P
There's also a naming discrepancy with Pepsi, too. I've read countless times that Pepsi was named for dyspepsia, and that pepsin, which is what Pepsi is sometimes thought to be named for, never appeared in the drink. However while researching Pepsi for a personal project, I came across a 1919 newspaper ad that described Pepsi as being a "pure mixture of pepsin, for digestion" or something to that effect. I don't know. Worth looking into.
Fun fact, in New Zealand, where I live, WoolWorths is actually called Countdown.
I remember when Cisco tried to sue Apple because they already had a copyright on iPhone for a infogear cordless network voip phone called the iphone that was released in 2000
6:09 this is also why the Saturday morning cartoon was named The Real Ghostbusters
About videogame consoles, you could make a whole video on the topic. The Atari Lynx was originally named the Handy by Epyx before the system was acquired by Atari. Also, because of Atari, the Mega Drive was renamed in the US as Genesis, however, Sega wanted the name Tomahawk. This wasn't the only traditional weapon Sega would like to use for a console, the Dreamcast original name was Katana, the name stuck for so long, that the devkits, motherboards and even the BIOS, carried the name Katana in several instances.
Sega had an obsesion with planets in the 90s, it wasn't just the Saturn. The Game Gear had the Mercury codename, 32X was Mars, a different unrealeased 32-bit cart-based system was christened as the Jupiter, an all-in-one MD with 32X was the Neptune, and finally, the Saturn with modem built in was called the Pluto. So, Venus and Uranus remain, one can only speculate that those might have been the names of either the Nomad or the rumored GG to MD adaptor a-la Super Gameboy (maybe someone out there knows better if those names were used differently).
Nintendo also had their "almost names". The Famicom almost was Home Video Computer, the DS was called the Nitro and the SNES/SFC was almost called the SFX.
Handy also means handjob.
Maryland’s original proposed name was “Crescentia” and Pennsylvania’s was “New Wales”
Heh guess that last one would kinda fit in well on the East coast of North America though what with New England and Nova Scotia (Latin form of New Scotland) though.
I've always wondered why there wasn't a New Wales.
@@crystalwolcott4744 There's a New South Wales, the most populous state in Australia, although I can see why that doesn't count because it's in a completely different continent.
@@schismaticsci1458 I'm an idiot how could I forget about NSW! lmao
Dont forget the New Caledonia Canal in Central America. At least thats what it would have been called had the Scottish colony survived
1:57-2:01 Actually, you can replace the word thing for its poecilonyms stuff and item.
I love you mr videos! Cheers from Brazil!
I've heard before that Bing was going to be called Bang, but then people realized it wasn't that smart to say "Let's Bang that real quick".
As it turns out, they didn't even need to worry about it because nobody uses Bing anyway!
One Xbox,
They kept the name Xbox even when they gave up on the system being a windows powered device that leveraged and expanded on DirectX. I honestly don’t think they expected the thing to do well, but rhymes managed to beat Nintendo in the ps2-GameCube-Xbox generation and so they went at it again and then the 360 was a huge hit
don't know if it's just my screen, but that red-on-blue combo during the Pepsi segment was seriously clashing. What about doing a video on car companies' official names, especially those that blended other brand names, like Daimler-Chrysler or Jaguar Land Rover. For example: Daimler is the parent company of Mercedes-Benz AG. Also what about the abbreviations that follow these companies' official names, like Ferrari S.p.A, or Audi AG?
Author James Heller considered several alternate titles for his classic novel Catch-22: Catch-18, Catch-11, Catch-17, and Catch-14. The first choice, Catch-18, was rejected because of a separate newly-published novel also about World War II: Leon Uris's Mila 18.
"Ghostbusters" problem with the earlier show "The Ghostbusters" wasn't specifically the name, because in the USA titles by themselves cannot be copyrighted. The problem was that the show had sufficient plot elements in common with the movie that the title confusion gave Hanna Barbera a reasonable cause of action had the movie producers not sought an agreement to use it.
Funny thing, Johnny Cage was called Michael Grimm during development of the first mortal kombat
Cassie Grimm
@@theshadow9360 doesn't ring tbh
There is a tea brand tazo. This name would bomb in Madagascar as tazo means malaria in Malagasy. Many years ago I saw a chain of supermarkets is British Columbia called overwaitea.
9:59 Woolworths used to be called "Safeway". IN NZ Woolworths is the same colou,logo everything etc but is named "countdown"
Brick Life I thought Safeway was just in a particular state of Australia lol
“Friends’” alternate titles included “Across the Hall” and “Six of One” (from the phrase “six of one, half dozen of another”).
Another interesting video, Appellation Inform!
I’m early and I’m happy,
Liked the vid btw
And I’m interested into this topic
Not many know this but the other name that got the toss was called Lady With Her Legs Spread Wide Open Coffee Company. For some odd reason the name never stuck. It was later named after Roger Staubach of the Dallas Cowboys later evolving into just Starbucks.
8:48 The Rutles lyrics have even more double-senses, play-on-words etc. Look it up!
5:59 I think I just went into one of those parallel universes you were talking about.
Universal? Wasn't the original GBs owned by Filmation?
according to Wikipedia Filmation was the production company and universal was the distributor
Woolworths supermarkets here in New Zealand have since ditched the name in favour of Countdown.
Who ya gonna call? *Namebusters*
When there’s something strange in your product name
Who ya gonna call? Namebusters
3:49-3:54 Sound symbolism, Pat. It's something that Edgar Grunewald of the UA-cam channel Artifexian could tell you about. And Xidnaf too.
Artifexian maybe; but why Xidnaf?
@@markmayonnaise1163 He might be an important expert on sound symbolism like other conlang pros. Biblaridion, jan Misali, etc.
@@kadenvanciel9335 Xidnaf is not a conlanger
Where does Battlestar Galatic's use of Starbuck fit into this?
Woolworths is called woolies in Australia coz we are lazy and shorten everything then add things to the end like an o
when he was talking abt Woolworths, i didn't even realize he said the word. i was like "what in the world is wuwuhs?"
I live in Australia and we go to Woolworths all the time
Monty Python's Flying Circus was nearly called Gwen Dibley's Flying Circus. There's a full list of names they considered for the show, some of which became episode titles in the first series.
@Stephen Thomas: And the Goodies too.
Rejected names were “Narrow Your Mind” and “SuperChaps 3.”
Bill Oddie came up with the name at the last minute.
@@mr51406 I was trying to remember some of the names The Goodies were considering. I've seen Bill Oddie mention that he woke up one morning with the name.
Maybe in this interview they did for the slapstick festival? It’s from January I think.
ua-cam.com/video/6bsFcUHwxyY/v-deo.html
If you have an hour, watch the whole thing, it’s beautiful to see them together, especially to see Tim one last time.
@@mr51406 Thank you for that, it was wonderful. Though obviously sad as well. It wasn't mentioned in this interview but it was a great watch. My cousin had the opportunity to photograph Tim Brooke-Taylor years ago when she worked for a paper and she said he was really lovely.
Jitter was used in The IT Crowd for their parody of Twitter. Not sure FriendFace was ever going to be the name of Facebook though.
There is a pizza restaurant in Chicago called Pequod's.
Here comes the Fun Cooker!
By looking at the logo of Woolworth's, I realised that it is actually called Countdown in New Zealand.
Irish pubs in Germany serve a beer named "Kilkenny's"...it is known in Ireland and the UK as "Smithwicks"...but I can see how that would be too much to ask of a German to pronounce: "Bitte ein Schmidt-wichs!"
Woolworths no longer exists in New Zealand. Instead we have Countdown but they still use the same logo and branding as Woolworths Australia.
8:40 It was actually originally called Wallworth's
I want to say that the Wimbledon museum talked about the inventor of tennis calling it sphairistike and wanting to stick with that name. I looked that up just now and Wikipedia says that was a racket game that evolved in to tennis. My memories of what I saw in 1988 might be failing me.
Steve Jobs reportedly wanted to call the iPod a MusicMan.
We call those wallets "money clips", meant for front pocket. Wallets go in the back pocket, therefore leather because metal is not good to sit on.
this episode soundtracks sounds a lot like a certain theoretical research facility in an underground bunker..... quite rad i do say
It is terraria right?
6:29 This segment aged well...
Did you go through other names for your channel before picking "Name explain"?
What were some of the names you considered before you chose Name Explain?
H.E.B., which is a hugely popular grocery chain in Texas, was founded by the Butt family, and is named after the initial of Howard E. Butt. They didn’t go with naming it after the founder, or we’d be shopping at Butt’s. And a lot of us are super immature.
My favorite (I have not 100% confirmed if it is really true) is Bing, which at some point in its development was supposed to be named Bang, until they played the scenario in their head what it would be like if the name would take hold as a verb too. So a bit more radical than just "backrub that" and seemingly too spicy for Microsoft. ^^
I know a Filipino woman named Bheng, which is pronounced pretty much like Bing.
Maybe in the same vein, but not your language: When Philipp von Zesen tried to "germanyfy" German ( in the 1600drets), a lot of the new words stuck, like Gehweg for the former used french Trottoir (Sidewalk), some were so odd they never took hold, like Meuchelpuffer for Pistol (in german today: Pistole) - Meuchelpuffer simply being lit. "assasination -poofer". As a side note there are regularly "bursts" of germanifying when loan words are taking over too much, every hundred years or so, usually its more of group effort but von Zesen did a lot by himself and was regarded high enough to be indulged. - Today such matters would be handled by the VDS (club/society of the german language)
Hi Patrick!
I think that the Beatles were very close to being called the Crickets. Something that was totally omitted in this video and even in all the comments until now.
The Crickets was Buddy Holly's band. Apparently The Beatles were big fans, and their name was a reference to it. Their previous name was The Quarrymen.
The original title for the third Star Wars film, Return Of The Jedi was Revenge Of The Jedi but it was changed because the word revenge has a negative connotation.
"Give it a backrub" -- yep, still a noun. Nice try, though. At least you got it in your second attempt.
At 13:00, when you're doing the advertisement, the sign has NordVPN on it and not Ridge
7:59 YOOOOOOOOOO i LIVE IN MELBOURNE
And then there are names which don't truly reflect reality. Starbucks, for example, should more appropriately have been named burnt sludge bucks...
"UA-cam's No. 1 Trotsky Impersonator"
The name IPHONE was first regested by CISO, but Apple want a name like Ipod and Imac. Appled paid CISO for the name.
10:49 Be careful with tha color scheme, It's stressful to look at bright-colored text over a bright-colored background.
I wanted to say something about this, and searched to see if someone already commented it
I think we had gotten used to Ghoststoppers it would be fine and Ghostbusters would just seem weird.
Cargo House? Yeah Starbucks is a better name
10:53 My eyes!
OK Backrub, make a Jitter post: "Coke or Brad?"
i was unaware that woolworths is one syllable
Google was lifted from a architectural design movement in the US during the fifties and sixties, so named from the first example, a coffee shop named Googie. This explains the bright colours used in the Google lettering, Googie styles using bright base colours for accent. McDonald’s and Pizza Huts were build to this style. The founders of Google are massive fans of this architecture. I found out this fact, backed up by personal interviews with the founders of Google some time ago, on free to air tv. This is the second straight time I have watched a video of yours, and felt the need to correct a totally un factual statement. Like, Dude, do you even research?
10:35 “Serjey Brin”?
Brad's Drink? let's try it!
Please consider more easy colors for the eyes I had to look away most of the time, wasn’t very pleasant
Tripod, the phone or the camera equipment?
Why does this video only has 26K views? Weird.
And hear I thought Google was originally called CIA Funding.
Aww my eyes! 11:10
you forgot a possible name for tweeter , and was even reused , that name is "X"
Scarlett O'Hara was originally called "Pansy" by author Marget Mitchell. Publishers suggested the name change to "Scarlett" as it was more in keeping with her character. I apologise for mentioning this book and film if some find it offensive. In no way do I want to defend the racist parts of either. I just found it interesting that MM could think up such a colourful character as Scarlett and yet think the name "Pansy" would be a good fit for her.
I think Twitter use to be called twttr or something
8:42 Christmas is a season?
Slav Dog: Yes, it is. On the Catholic liturgical calendar, the year is divided into seasons. The season leading up to December 25 is called Advent. The season from December 25 to January 5 is called Christmas. Notice that it is twelve days long, hence the famous twelve day of Christmas. I'm surprised that retailers haven't exploited this concept to extend gift giving and buying into January.
Sounds like he had a stroke every time he tried to say "Woolworths"
12:52 um the sponsor is Ridge not NordVPN
I know thous names have a completely different origin
but still, Ko-Phangan and Copenhagen (or København) have very similar names
10:50 - They didn't adapt Google, they _misspelled_ googol and didn't realize until it was too late.
And they've been continuing to get things wrong ever since.
Which was fortunate because you can't trademark commonly used words in many countries.
In an alternate reality, Starbucks is named Apollo's. So say we all! 😁
Great video as always, but please don't do red text on blue backgrounds