- Spelling Matters
Does how you spell a word really matter? English is rife with spelling rules and idiosyncrasies – for example, there’s the old mnemonic “i before e, except after c.” But what about weird? And then there are the many ways that the string ough can be pronounced: cough, tough, though and through are the usual examples.
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- Strategic Brand Naming Services
Lexicon provides brand naming services and helps develop names that reflect a desired brand character and personality. We help your team develop a brand name that will be popular with consumers and support specific, logical attributes.
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- The Corporate Name: What Goes Into It and Why Is It So Important?
I was recently asked those two questions by a reporter for Forbes. The answers are so key that it’s worth restating them here. Let’s start with the question regarding the importance of a corporate name (or any brand name for that matter).
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- Throwing The Market A Curve
Some of the brand name development efforts that happen at Lexicon® Branding remain in the shadows. It may be a name for a select segment of software engineers. Or a major brand’s soft drink that gets test marketed in Topeka, Kansas, and never gets any closer to a rollout.
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- Top Rated Lexicon Blogs
Lexicon Blogs! View top rated blog entries and posts from Lexicon's Blog In Brand Name Development, Brand Naming, Branding, Business, Linguistics, Naming, Trademarks. Lexicon experts discuss the key drivers of brand name development and branding and accelerating innovation.
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- Understanding The “X” Factor
Not long ago Brand X was just a way to dismiss a brand as generic. (Or to diss competitors by not acknowledging them by name in commercials.) Then suddenly X acquired panache and power, as in Microsoft’s Xbox, Nissan’s XTerra, and The X Games from ESPN.
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- Want Your Startup Name In The Dictionary? Choose Wisely
The English language is constantly evolving. Experts at Merriam-Webster and the Oxford English Dictionary perennially add words that have been invented and accepted in our daily lexicons. The practice can be controversial, however, since it sometimes involves removing other, older words entirely.
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- Why The BlackBerry Wasn't A Strawberry
David Placek says that product names should evoke pleasant associations and avoid being either too literal or random. Before it was the BlackBerry, it was a lump of plastic and microchips that was difficult to name. Its Canadian developers wanted to call it ProMail. They knew something was missing.
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- Zola: Aims to Replace Google Books, Then Take on Amazon
A new bookselling start-up funded by authors and other investors is forming partnerships with publishers and independent booksellers and aims to replace the Google eBooks re-seller program as the go-to platform for indies interested in selling e-books.
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