Well, I don't think it has anything to do with advertising, but yeah. It's all about the problem with being able to copyright a standard english word, so you get things like Kleenex.
Because putting an 'e' in the right place would be too easy, that's why.
Of course, they could just drop the 't' as well and call it a 'Winry Mix', but that's a Fullmetal Alchemist reference that I just came up with. *laughs*
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Date: 2006-11-30 07:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-02 07:27 pm (UTC)I guess that drink would be an easy sell at a cirut party.
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Date: 2006-11-30 07:55 pm (UTC)I before e, except after c.
Date: 2006-11-30 08:12 pm (UTC)Re: I before e, except after c.
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Date: 2006-11-30 10:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-02 07:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-01 01:08 am (UTC)Of course, they could just drop the 't' as well and call it a 'Winry Mix', but that's a Fullmetal Alchemist reference that I just came up with. *laughs*