Comments on: Chick flicks and Chick-fil-A http://www.pomeradonews.com/2012/08/16/chick-flicks-and-chick-fil-a/ Serving Poway, Rancho Bernardo and 4S Ranch Tue, 21 May 2013 04:18:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Bored Stiff http://www.pomeradonews.com/2012/08/16/chick-flicks-and-chick-fil-a/#comment-612543 Bored Stiff Sat, 18 Aug 2012 03:50:43 +0000 http://www.pomeradonews.com/?p=27695#comment-612543 Tom, Somewhere out there, a hobby awaits you. Tom, Somewhere out there, a hobby awaits you.

]]> By: dan marc http://www.pomeradonews.com/2012/08/16/chick-flicks-and-chick-fil-a/#comment-612310 dan marc Fri, 17 Aug 2012 23:11:25 +0000 http://www.pomeradonews.com/?p=27695#comment-612310 Truett Cathy (Dan's Father) started the business in 1946, when he and his brother, Ben, opened an Atlanta diner known as The Dwarf Grill. Truett developed a recipe for chicken sandwiches in the early 1960s and trademarked the name "Chick-fil-A" in 1963. He personally came up with the name Chick-fil-A as a play on the words 'chicken fillet' with the 'A' at the end standing for top quality. Proper grammar is hardly ever a factor in choosing a catchy, brand able, high recognition, distinctive, and trademark able company or product name or logo in business. Bob- If you don't usually like 'chick flicks' but run across one you do enjoy and recommend like 'Hope Springs' you could call them Chick-flick-A. Truett Cathy (Dan's Father) started the business in 1946, when he and his brother, Ben, opened an Atlanta diner known as The Dwarf Grill.

Truett developed a recipe for chicken sandwiches in the early 1960s and trademarked the name "Chick-fil-A" in 1963. He personally came up with the name Chick-fil-A as a play on the words 'chicken fillet' with the 'A' at the end standing for top quality.

Proper grammar is hardly ever a factor in choosing a catchy, brand able, high recognition, distinctive, and trademark able company or product name or logo in business.

Bob- If you don't usually like 'chick flicks' but run across one you do enjoy and recommend like 'Hope Springs' you could call them Chick-flick-A.

]]> By: Tom Yarnall http://www.pomeradonews.com/2012/08/16/chick-flicks-and-chick-fil-a/#comment-611895 Tom Yarnall Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:34:28 +0000 http://www.pomeradonews.com/?p=27695#comment-611895 From a modern day teacher: "I have seen attempts to make rules governing the pronunciation of "a" in English sentences. Some of them are in older textbooks, but modern books rarely try to be firm about it. The truth is that there are a variety of acceptable ways to do it. And the actual pronunciation in any particular case depends on the speaker's exact intentions at the time of speaking. He or she may wish to emphasize something (within the context of the discussion taking place) by pronouncing "a" (or, for that matter, other words in his statement) in particular ways. "A" can be correctly pronounced as the letter "A" in the alphabet. It can also be pronounced as "uh" (generally called schwa by teachers and linguists) with complete correctness. There are also regional variences in the way "a" is pronounced. All of them are correct. What is important is that the person or persons to whom the speaker is talking clearly understands what is being said, and to a large extent, that depends also on the degree of expertise held by those persons." I personally understand the intent of Chic-fil-A and think it is an ingenious name. From a modern day teacher:
"I have seen attempts to make rules governing the pronunciation of "a" in English sentences. Some of them are in older textbooks, but modern books rarely try to be firm about it. The truth is that there are a variety of acceptable ways to do it. And the actual pronunciation in any particular case depends on the speaker's exact intentions at the time of speaking. He or she may wish to emphasize something (within the context of the discussion taking place) by pronouncing "a" (or, for that matter, other words in his statement) in particular ways. "A" can be correctly pronounced as the letter "A" in the alphabet. It can also be pronounced as "uh" (generally called schwa by teachers and linguists) with complete correctness. There are also regional variences in the way "a" is pronounced. All of them are correct. What is important is that the person or persons to whom the speaker is talking clearly understands what is being said, and to a large extent, that depends also on the degree of expertise held by those persons."

I personally understand the intent of Chic-fil-A and think it is an ingenious name.

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