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December 3, 2001

Names Considered and Rejected by the Software Company “Cisive” While Looking for Something in the Style of “Teligent” and “Genuity.”

by Earl L. Humphreys

Ane
Cestuous
Donesian
Dustrial
Fantile
Fectious
Kblot
Nards
Quisition
Sipid
Stitutionalize
Terrobang
Toxicant
Troversion
Tumesce

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