Welcome to the Guess My Word blog. This is a place to discuss the words of the day chosen by Joon and Mike. This paragraph is here mostly as spoiler space. Here are today's words:
A couple of weeks ago I was surprised to see realtor in TWL (in the FB Scrabble game TWL). The National Association of Realtors has all sorts of rules about using their "mark." WordWeb has two separate entries, one of which defined generically.
You may be right about the trademark, but in the US it doesn't seem to be registered in the context of eating utensils. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spork
Not really specific to today's words, but why isn't spork in the dictionary?
ReplyDeletei'd guess that maybe it's a trademark? realtor isn't in the dictionary either, for that reason.
DeleteA couple of weeks ago I was surprised to see realtor in TWL (in the FB Scrabble game TWL). The National Association of Realtors has all sorts of rules about using their "mark." WordWeb has two separate entries, one of which defined generically.
ReplyDeleteYou may be right about the trademark, but in the US it doesn't seem to be registered in the context of eating utensils. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spork