c. Concorde
Concorde is a retired turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner. Concorde was jointly developed and produced by two nations; U.K. and France.
According to Cambridge Dictionaries Online, Concorde comes from French word means agreement between persons, groups, nations, and harmony,
goodwill, and friendship.
d. Aspirin
Aspirin is a chemical substance that is useful in the relief of headache and muscle and joint aches. The first person who created this kind of medicine was
Felix Hoffman in 1899 Cheng, 2007. Aspirin is a trademark brand from Bayer Company. The name was taken from the blending process of the Latin words
Acetyl Spiraea Salicylic Acid Ine .
4. Meaning Classification Based on Persons, Things, and Places Names.
The writer finds there are nine brand names which meanings are taken from the name of person, thing, and place. They are Polo, Lacoste, Winnie the
Pooh, Shaun the Sheep, Frisbee, Apollo 7, Armani, Prada, and Thai. The analysis is shown below.
a. Polo
Polo is a kind of shirt with a knitted collar, short sleeves, a two or three button placket the neck opening and is made from a knitted fabric. The design
was adopted from the shirt that Polo players usually use. Polo is the name of a game in which players riding on horses try to hit a ball into a goal using long-
wooden hammers Hornby, 2000: 894.
b. Shaun the Sheep
Shaun the Sheep is a main character of a stop motion spin-off animated series from Wallace and Gromit franchise. It was first aired on March 2007 in
UK. The name of this sheep is accidentally a play on word by the creator, Nick Park who named the sheep Shaun because it sounds so much like shorn which
is the past participle of to shear - if a sheep is shorn, it has had all its wool cut off Perry, 2011. The name also was taken from Irish name Campbell, 2014: 1
c. Lacoste
Lacoste was founded by a French tennis legend René Lacoste when he retired from the court. The crocodile symbol is based on his nickname during his
career as a tennis player. This brand sells clothing, footwear, perfume, leather goods, watches, eyewear, and polo shirts.
d. Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh, or people also call the Pooh, is a fictional character from the children literature with the same title, Winnie the Pooh. The character was
created by an author, named A. A. Milne. The character is a bear and the name Winnie is taken from the name of a real bear from the London Zoo that the
authors son, Christopher Robin often went to. The name Pooh rather surprisingly, came not from a bear but a swan. Christopher Robin, who feeds this swan in the
mornings, gave him the name of Pooh
e. Frisbee
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