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There’s The Episcopal Church and Then There Are Episcopal Churches
In 2012, the South Carolina Diocese of The Episcopal Church declared that it disassociated from parent The Episcopal Church, a hierarchical church. The common understanding is that it was because of the ordination of gay clergy and acceptance of same-sex unions, although the disassociating diocese differs with that characterization. As a result there are two […] Continue reading
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Urban Homesteading
URBAN HOMESTEADINGURBAN HOMESTEADINGURBAN HOMESTEADING Check out EFF to see what it’s about. The text of this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Continue reading
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Shades of Spam Arrest
Here’s an interesting story on the derivation of the word “tabloid” for a newspaper. It’s a trademark registered in the United Kingdom in 1884 for compressed medicines, a portmanteau of “tablet” and “ovoid.” The use of the mark was later expanded to tea, first aid kits, snake bite kits, photographic chemicals, and other goods. Burroughs […] Continue reading
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And the Survey Says —
I had a great response to my survey; my thanks to everyone who participated and to those who drove traffic to the survey, particularly Marty at The Trademark Blog and John at The TTABlog. Here’s a link to the original post and here’s a pdf version of the blank survey questions, in case you missed […] Continue reading
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Thanks to All
Thanks to everyone who responded on the ice cream survey. I had 207 responses, 200 US and 7 foreign. I’ll be posting the results in the next day or two. © 2008 Pamela Chestek Continue reading
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“I’ll be a Monkey’s Uncle” Genericism Survey
I read a case recently that made me wonder whether my personal reaction about the genericism of a phrase was right or wrong, so I decided I’d see what others think. I prepared a Teflon-type survey on SurveyMonkey for you to take; send your friends to take it too. It should take you no more […] Continue reading
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