Of interring note, there is much debate as to what constitutes a word and wether brand names are words, special words, or some other symbology. Studies have shown certain key differences in the processing of brand names vs. Common words, orthographically based visual-word recognition models don’t seem to apply to brand name recognition among other interesting quirks.
One could argue that Oreo is not a word regardless as the individual snack is an “Oreo cookie” and the company itself is not called “Oreo,” of course it’s a prickly pear. A major criteria to be a word is a common ad wide understanding. If you say “Oreo” most people from any country where the cookies are know. will know what you refer to and my experience is few people commonly refer to the cookie by its complete name. Much the same that the Lego Group does not support the use of the word “Legos” or “Lego” when referring to individual elements or groups of elements and prefers “Lego brick” “Lego system” etc, yet in common
usage “Lego” or “legos” is generally understood. At least as far as English is concerned, a word can be considered such through common usage even if it does not necessarily meet the criteria to be considered a word otherwise.
So I find it an ingesting puzzle and want to firstly say, rather clever to come up with that, and secondly say, thank you for presenting this interesting topic through your choice of word.
Overdo, oregano, obligado…. There’s a ton more- and that’s if we take that as “no ENGLISH words.” If we look at non English words there are sooooo many more.
One could argue that Oreo is not a word regardless as the individual snack is an “Oreo cookie” and the company itself is not called “Oreo,” of course it’s a prickly pear. A major criteria to be a word is a common ad wide understanding. If you say “Oreo” most people from any country where the cookies are know. will know what you refer to and my experience is few people commonly refer to the cookie by its complete name. Much the same that the Lego Group does not support the use of the word “Legos” or “Lego” when referring to individual elements or groups of elements and prefers “Lego brick” “Lego system” etc, yet in common
So I find it an ingesting puzzle and want to firstly say, rather clever to come up with that, and secondly say, thank you for presenting this interesting topic through your choice of word.