Monday 19 April 2010

0449 HKSAR Name of the Day

Coco Liu Ching-yi, Sha Tin, Hong Kong (letters to the editor, SCMP, 25 Mar 2009)

About Novel HKSAR Names
Name Category: Rare; Brand-based

2 comments:

  1. aimlesswanderer22 April 2010 at 23:20

    Naming yourself after a luxury brand name would be of great concern to me at least. Though perhaps she was imitating a celeb?

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  2. Thanks AW. Yes perhaps imitating a celeb ... you mean Coco the Clown, right? :-) Regarding brand-based names; Hongkongers show themselves to prefer luxury brands rather than 'common' brands (e.g. Monster Munch ). It adds an air of 'class' as opposed to an air of 'humour' (at least, that's the intention).

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