From: "Stone Gordonssen" <stonegordonssen@...>
Subject: Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
> > > A chocolate-covered chocolate biscuit. With three thin layers of
> > > biscuit. Named after an American race-horse of the same name.
> >
> >If they ever try marketing these in the US, I hope they rename it.
Around
> >here, naming a brown biscuit after a _horse_ would certainly give the
wrong
> >impression about its use.
>
> You mean like the "Cow Flop" cookies marketed some years ago?
Exactly. Or like the "Calpis" soda in Japan. In some variants of English
(mine, usually) "Cal" and "cow" are very similar in sound. By the way, I
understand Calpis is a light-colored soda.