Talk:Kodak/Archives/2019
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"Not resemble any other name"
The "Name" section near the end of the article says that when George Eastman and his mother collaborated on inventing the name "Kodak" one of George's requirements was that it 'should not resemble any other name'. But it does resemble another (pre-existing) name: Kodiak, in Alaska. The state had been purchased by the United States from Russia almost a quarter-century earlier. Could the Eastmans have heard the name and forgotten it? Or had they never heard of it? I've been aware of the similarity of the two names for many years, but I've never encountered any acknowledgement of it anywhere. O Murr (talk) 21:49, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
I've just spotted the notice (in tiny print) "Not to be confused with Kodiak" at the top of the article page. But I can honestly say - with some sense of relief - that this is the first acknowledgement of any kind that I've ever seen that the two names are similar. O Murr (talk) 07:46, 16 November 2019 (UTC)