Christopher Johnson
Naming Consultant, Linguist, Language Geek

The Name Inspector

• http://www.thenameinspector.com
• http://www.phrasetrain.com

I help people name their companies, products, and services, and I write about names on my blog The Name Inspector. I'm also the founder of Phrasetrain, which applies user-generated natural language technology to web search. Phrasetrain is tiny, so I wear lots of hats: linguist, developer, web/graphic designer, evangelist, etc.

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  From Dan McComb

  Given on Mon Jul 2, 2007.

  Great interview in the Seattlest blog this morning, Chris. And I just loooooooove what you said about Biznik! It feels...[more]

  Great interview in the Seattlest blog this morning, Chris. And I just loooooooove what you said about Biznik! It feels like a launch present for us today, thank you :-)

  Best, /dan   [less]
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  From Dan McComb

  Given on Tue Mar 20, 2007.

  Naming is something that happens at the crossroads of intuition and science, and The Name Inspector is the guy standing...[more]

  Naming is something that happens at the crossroads of intuition and science, and The Name Inspector is the guy standing in the middle of the intersection, directing traffic.   [less]

Christopher's blog: The Name Inspector

• Dear New York Times: Nobody’s a perfect

  Posted Wed, 23 Jul 2008 by The Name Inspector

  The Name Inspector is usually too busy inspecting names to scold people about other linguistic matters. But in this case he can no longer stand to remain silent. He emailed William Safire about an error that appeared in his column On Language way back in April. He’s been waiting for a public outcry, rowdy demonstrations [...]

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• Phonotactics be damned!

  Posted Mon, 14 Jul 2008 by The Name Inspector

  Suppose you want to write a computer program to look for unregistered domain names. You could devise a simple algorithm to produce all possible combinations of four letters, five letters, six letters, etc. But that would give you a whole mess of unpronounceable domains, like alsdh.com. So, you might want to strategize a little. You [...]

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• Free Pass to Biznik’s BizJam!

  Posted Sat, 05 Jul 2008 by The Name Inspector

  Until that elusive next name analysis appears, The Name Inspector would like to offer his readers another rare treat: a chance at a free pass to the Biznik-sponsored BizJam indie business conference happening next Wednesday and Thursday in Seattle. Long-time readers, or readers who’ve done some clicking around on this blog, might remember The Name [...]

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