Over on Answer My Searches, I recently mentioned Yould, the pronounceable name generator as an interesting method for devising new names for products.

Here’s another interesting method for coming up with a clever name from this Wikipedia article:

The name “Samba” was arrived at by running the Unix command grep through the system dictionary looking for words that contained the letters S, M, and B in that order (i.e. grep -i ’s.*m.*b.*’ /usr/share/dict/words).

I gave it a try to see what naming options I missed for Grocist:
grep -i 'l.*i.*s.*t.*' /usr/share/dict/words
And “Wiliest” did look promising, but I’ll keep “Grocist” for now.

BTW, I came up with “Grocist” by saying “grocery list” as fast as a could until it turned into one word. That was back before I knew about these ‘fancy’ methods

There’s also a conversation about company naming going on over here.

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