Nancy Friedman's language blog, Fritinancy, is one of few non-horse blogs I follow closely. I recently sent her an email observation about a new equestrian brand, and (to my delight) she blogged it today in her post Naughty Names...
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Made famous! BTB in the blogosphere
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I was just discussing this with a friend of mine yesterday! Bad name choice. Horrible, terrible name choice. :P
ReplyDeleteAh, well, if you can just read it without pronouncing it in your head, it's kind of clever.
ReplyDeleteAnd that reminds me of a conversation I had with a non-native English teacher who was confused as to why native English speakers had trouble with, "their, they're and there." Having learned the language through writing, the words were distinctly different to him, so how they "sounded" was virtually irrelevant.
Could be why no one clued the Horze people in on this one.
I love your blog. Just wanted you to know I featured an article of yours (and gave your blog credit) over at my "Just Horses" blog today. :)
ReplyDeleteAhahaha, yes, Horze is popular here too. One time my non-horsey parents-in-law were visiting at the same time as my little sister, and she was excitedly telling them about the "horze stuff" she was getting. The look on their face was priceless (I ruined it by quickly explaining, of course!). I still smile everytime I see it advertised.
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