Centuryan?

[stackdump]

Saw a van for a company called "Centuryan Security" today. Took one look at it and thought hmm... bad speller at work!

Given they offer security services including guards then 'centurion' would seem to be an apt name.

But am I wrong?, is this one of those words that can be spelled several ways? I'm sure I've seen it written that way somewhere before.

 

[CajunCenturion]

Since it's the name of a company, it's a proper noun and may be spelled any way the owner chooses.

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[p5wizard]

And perhaps the owners want to indicate that their company has been going for 100 years or more...

p5

 

[stackdump]

Wouldn't that be a centenarian?

 

[p5wizard]

Well, yes but...

A play on words maybe:
century = 100 years
Centuryan = of a century
and centurion is also a guard

so for a security company that's been around for ages (or one that intends to stay) the name does make some sense.

But what do I know? ;-)


p5

 

[stackdump]

Or maybe they have one guard called Ryan who gets sent out everywhere.

 

[LeeMcCauslin]

I think their gaurd is a centaur named Ian who flunked spelling.

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[BadBigBen]

Great advertising, in my book...

think about this, due to the misspelling, the company name stuck in your head... this probably would not have happened if it was spelled correctly...



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[AnotherHiggins]

Yes, the name would stick in my head, too. But my immediate reaction would be the same as stackdump's - that they don't know how to spell.

Therefore I would probably never do any business with them.

Not great advertising in my book.

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[franklin97355]

Seems to be from the UK. probably like colour and such.

The answer is "42"

 

[BadBigBen]

John, now they are in the security business...

and we all know, that brawn and brains usually don't come in one package...

;-)

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[stackdump]

In that case they might have been better called Centuryan Securaty.

Maybe BadBigBen has a point, could we be seeing the start of a trend?, with names featuring bad spelling; Americain Airlines, Generel Electric, Cisco Sistems, Texas Intraments..

 

[KenCunningham]

@franklin97355 - being in the UK, I've never seen it spelled that way before.

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[drlex]

Some deliberate mis-spelling allows for easier trademarking ("Cheez Whiz", anyone?) as well as standing out from those spelt correctly. Plenty of "Centurion" firms about; less "Centuryan". It does, however, support the contention that dumbing down is resulting in the rise of phonetic spelling.

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[2ffat]

I think it was deliberately misspelled. As mentioned above, it sticks in your mind and it may have some significance to the owners. Plus "Centurion Security" may have already been used/copyrighted.


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[PaulBricker]

Kind of like the Syfy channel. Used to be SciFi I think. Or Cindy, Cindi, Cyndi, Sindi, Syndi or.......
These days, it's personal preference.


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[2ffat]

I heard through the "grape vine" that the change from SciFi to SyFy was a trade mark issue. :-(


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[PaulBricker]

If that's the case, it would make a lot more sense to me.

Paul

 

[AnotherHiggins]

I heard the same - they couldn't trademark "Sci Fi," so they changed the spelling to something that isn't already in common usage.

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[LeeMcCauslin]

Yup - It's in their FAQ on the SyFy website. They couldn't trademark Sci-Fi and branding is everything.

My wife's name is Judi but her brother refuses to spell it that way because it's "wrong". lol.

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