Re: [wg-review] Re: [ga] New TLD Agreements

[Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

Andy Gardner wrote:
> 
> At 3:26 pm -0500 3/1/01, Sotiropoulos wrote:
> >For
> >example: Coke is an English/Latin character word,
> >and it was coined as such (i.e. it did not exist
> >in the dictionary and was created for the use of
> >the Coca-Cola Company).
> 
> Not where I come from.
> 
> Coke is a term for carbonated coal, or charcoal.
> 
> >From http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/epns/ipcs2106.html
> 
> "The pyrollysis, carbonisation, distillation, liquefaction, partial
> oxidation or other heat treatment of coal, lignite, oil, other carbonaceous
> material (as defined in Section 1.1) or mixtures thereof otherwise than
> with a view to gasification or making of charcoal".
> 
> This predates the theft of this term by the Coca-Cola Company by a good
> many decades, if not a full century.

Well, it's true that old saying, "you learn
something new every day"...  Andy, you're right!
:-) I just looked it up in the dictionary and lo
and behold... coke is not a coined word!  Thanks
for pointing this out.  Well, that settles it for
"Coke", it's not a coined word, so the Coca-Cola
Company does not de facto own any "rights" to that
word outside the marketing of a cola beverage.

Sotiris Sotiropoulos
	Hermes Network, Inc.
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