On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:50:56 -0800, Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> We never knew which ones 'management' liked. But we beta-testers made
> several recommendations, none of which were available, we were told. My own
> favorite was "Attaché". Alpaca was just a code name for the beta - it also
> wasn't available, BTW. Just about anything you could think of was already
> trademarked by someone. We were all disappointed with the eventual name. But
> who cares now?
I asked thesaurus.com to look up synonyms for "schedule" and got the
following:
list, catalog, inventory, schedule; register; account; bill, bill of costs;
syllabus; terrier, tally, file; calendar, index, table, atlas, contents;
book, ledger; synopsis, catalogue raisonne; tableau; invoice, bill of
lading; prospectus, program; bill of fare, menu, carte; score, census,
statistics, returns; Red book, Blue book, Domesday book; cadastre;
directory, gazetteer. almanac; army list, clergy list, civil service list,
navy list; Almanach de Gotha, cadaster, card index, card file, rolodex,
dictionary, thesaurus, Lloyd's register, nautical almanac, who's who,
Guiness's Book of World Records.
Of these, "terrier" is appealing, the precedents of vanished bow-wow
software (CyberDog, RetreieveIt!) notwithstanding.
My copy of Spell Catcher suggested:
program, agenda, calendar, card docket, programma, sked, timetable.
Personally, I'd vote for "sked" since it would mystify as much as Entourage.
However, that name is also trademarked: http://sked.sourceforge.net/
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William Howarth
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