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From: trb@floyd.UUCP (Andy Tannenbaum)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Cokes the real thing
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Date: Wed, 31-Aug-83 21:32:32 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 31 21:32:32 1983
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Brian Delaney claims that the Coke trademark actually says Cocai Cola.
Looking at my collection of Coke bottles here, I see that the "a" in
Coca has a tail and there is a short hyphen above the tail, which
could be construed as an "i."  However, I also have Coke bottles
from Israel with the Coke logo in Hebrew, and there is a short dash
between the Coca and the Cola.  This dash does not signify the Hebrew
pronunciation Cocai though the Hebrew letter for "y" does look
somewhat like the dash.  The pronunciation would be Cocahee if the
dash were a Hebrew Y.

An interesting little aside, though Hebrew is written from right to
left, the letters on the Coke bottle are slanted in the same direction
as the English letters, and the little dash has the same orientation
(////'////).  This seems to be a general property of cursive writing
in English and Hebrew rather than a peculiarity of the Coke logo, I
just never noticed it before.

	Andy Tannenbaum   Bell Labs  Whippany, NJ   (201) 386-6491