In Reply to: Re: Monster pricks posted by Donald North on October 14, 2004 at 17:56:45:
The difference is that these words are not normal, everyday english words, but established, derived company names."Monster" is a standard english language word, see my other post above.
Nowhere in the Merriam Webster, or the Oxford English Dictionary , is there a definition for "Monster" along the lines of:
Monster (adj.): from the latin monstro, meaning "to be succesuful at selling wire"
Sorry, it's been a quiet day at work. It's my last day before 3 months of long service leave :-)
Smoke me a kipper...I'll be Back for Breakfast.
Cheers
welly
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Follow Ups
- Re: Monster pricks - welly 18:10:38 10/14/04 (4)
- How about "Apple", "Virgin", and "Windows"? [nt] - David Spear 18:31:32 10/14/04 (2)
- Re: How about "Apple", "Virgin", and "Windows"? [nt] - welly 20:46:32 10/14/04 (0)
- Re: How about "Apple", "Virgin", and "Windows"? [nt] - AlphaGeek 19:16:31 10/14/04 (0)
- And Coke tried to control the use of the word "Cola" and lost - DAT 18:19:57 10/14/04 (0)