Brand Name Letters

Users joke about and criticize the peculiar letter choices in a product or brand name, highlighting its near-alphabetical sequence, missing letters like A, U, or W, substitutions such as e for a, alternate forms like N, and confusions like L/I/1.

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CCCCCCC AND PC LOAD LETTER letters letter alphabet et jane soup characters john confusing vowel

Sample Comments

mhashemi Mar 19, 2015 View on HN

they're so close to alphabetical; this is killing me

Havoc Jun 6, 2021 View on HN

We're gonna need a bigger alphabet

bradfordw Dec 15, 2010 View on HN

"The other letters are B or S" -- are we sure it's not B AND S?

joeguilmette Jan 18, 2011 View on HN

Clearly someone is getting their alphabet soup backwards...

th0ma5 Jan 28, 2024 View on HN

Why not different letters this seems to go unanswered

cr0wd3dp4n Mar 13, 2021 View on HN

There's an alternate N in there!

hnfong Jun 17, 2023 View on HN

Interesting how you left an "A" out..

awqrre Oct 25, 2016 View on HN

alphabet is another one... this is ridiculous

diminoten Feb 24, 2014 View on HN

Sternly worded letters. Possibly a vowel or two.

maxpersson Nov 26, 2014 View on HN

Thanks for adding the link, it is quite a letter combination. :)