Business Naming Basics

   There are some reference books I keep going back to during the business naming process.

 

(Note, I created the Ah, Books name and logo for a client several years ago.)

Here are my most prized company naming in-print resources:

Word Menu by Stephen Glazier.

Roget’s 21st Century Thesaurus edited by Barbara Ann Kipfer.

The Complete Word Book by Mary A. De Vrie

The Synonym Finder by J.I.Rodale

Word Stems: A Dictionary by John Kennedy

Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable, edited by Ivor H. Evans

Dictionary of Art and Archaeology by J.W. Mollett

Dictionary of Philosophy and Religion by W. L. Reese

Merriam Webster’s Geographical Dictionary

The Complete Rhyming Dictionary by Clement Wood

The links above will refer you to Amazon. They were current at the time of posting. But several of these books are out of print and only used copies are available, so you may find upon clicking the link that a particular volume is sold out. But usually one of Amazon’s used book partners will have a copy on hand, usually very cheaply.

Now I don’t use every volume for every project, but I do find myself going back to these resources time and time again. They only account for perhaps an eighth of my naming research library, but as I said, they are my "indispensable’s".

If anyone has a particular favorite naming resouce or two, please add it (them) as a comment below

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