How did Uber get its name?
Uber is the English translation of the German word Über meaning “over”, “above”, “super”, etc.Uber (as a company) was Ubercab (meaning a supercab company) at the beginning.However, in 2010, the San Francisco Metro Transit Authority & the Public Utilities Commission of California ordered the startup to cease and desist.Hence, the company had to shorten its brand name to just Uber.
How did hot dogs get their name?
In 1852, the butcher's guild in Frankfurt-am-Main created a smoked, spiced sausage in a thin casing, dubbed a "little-dog" or "dachshund sausage" for its obvious resemblance to the low-riding German dog. (Those funny Germans!) Its other popular name was, of course, the frankfurter. Wiener comes from a similar sausage made in Vienna. Unlike the usual wursts, dachshund sausages were usually sold with bread. In 1871, an immigrant German butcher opened the proto-hot dog stand at Coney Island, selling the dachshund sausages wrapped in a milk roll. By 1893, the portable meat-tubes were already a regular accompaniment to baseball games and other sporting events. The popular legend on the etymology of hot dog holds that a cartoonist named T.A. "Tad" Dorgan attended a polo match in New York in 1901 where vendors roamed the aisles imploring patrons to "get your red-hot dachshund sausages." Enchanted, Dorgan drew a smiling dachshund nestled in a long bun, but couldn't spell dachshund, so he captioned it "hot dog!" and thus the food got its name. Charming, but untrue. According to the NHDSC, historians have never been able to find this alleged cartoon, even though Dorgan's body of surviving work is vast. The real source of hot dog: Like so many unpleasant things in America, it came from Yale. The term had been recorded there as early as 1894 as a sarcastic description of the dubiously composed sausages that vendors peddled from "dog wagons" near the dorms.
Where do hot dogs get their name?
The history dates back to more than a century ago when a cartoonist named T.A. Dorgan (short form TAD) drew a famous cartoon, and the rest is history.So, the legend goes like this: At a baseball game at Polo Grounds in New York, United States, in 1901, TAD could hear loud yelling in his press box from vendors at food stalls saying, ‘Get your dachshund sausages while they are red hot!’The Polo Grounds at New YorkThe next day, TAD drew a cartoon depicting the scene at the Polo Grounds with vendors yelling the same. However, he could not spell the word ‘dachshund’. So instead of writing what they were saying, he just wrote ‘hot dogs’ instead of dachshund sausages. Since that day, these sausage filled ecstasy food is known as a hot dog.How a dachshund sausage would look like if Tad had his wayNow you know why the ‘hot dogs’ were named so. So the next time anyone asks you this question, you do not have to hide your face cutting a sorry figure that you know not.Source: The History Behind The Origin Of The Name Hot Dog Revealed!
What is the meaning of "Uber"? How did Uber choose its name?
Über is a German word meaning "over."From Wikipedia:Über, sometimes written ueber, uber or uuber, is a German language word meaning "over", "above" or "across". It is an etymological twin with German ober, and is cognate (through Proto-Germanic) with English over, Dutch over, and Icelandic yfir, among other Germanic languages. It is also distantly cognate to both Latin super and Greek ὑπέρ (hyper), through Proto-Indo-European.The name of the company, however, came indirectly from Friedrich Nietzsche. From Wikipedia again (with a comment by me in the middle):The crossover of the term "über" from German into English goes back to the work of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. In 1883, Nietzsche coined the term "Übermensch" to describe the higher state to which he felt men might aspire. [Sarah's note: mensch means "man" in German.] The term was brought into English by George Bernard Shaw in the title to his 1903 play Man and Superman.This is the reason for the popular construction uber[something] to mean a better version of the something.So, back to Uber (the company): it used to be called UberCab. In 2010 it got a cease and desist notice from the San Francisco Metro Transit Authority & the Public Utilities Commission of California, and on the same day it officially shortened the name to just Uber. (It seems likely that those two events are related, but I haven't been able to find that confirmed anywhere.)See also:Wikipedia: ÜberHow did Uber get its name?Why did UberCab change their name to Uber?
How did Travis Kalanick name Uber?
I don't believe that it was Travis who named the company. I think it was Garrett Camp, the founder, who originally named it UberCab, implying the ultimate cab company (or, more accurately, the ultimate limousine dispatching company for San Francisco.)In English, "Uber", according to the dictionary, is a prefix meaning "being a superlative example of its kind or class". The word is borrowed directly from German, in which it means "over or beyond, from the Old High German ubar."
Where do hot dogs come from?
This question reminded me of my brother asking the same question a long time ago. His class went on a field trip to a ranch that had large herds of cattle. I think they were being branded. Anyway, he asked me about wienies. As I started to tell him how they were made, he told me he saw a whole bunch of cows that day and only a couple had dicks. Therefore, that is how we get hot dogs.I proceeded to explain to him the sausage making process. Which included, the ingredients, which included organ meat, lips, ears and even brains and eyeballs. And it all comes from Oscar Meyer’s sausage works. He never ate a hot dog again. I’m still amazed that he would be alright with eating bovine penis, but not brains and eyeballs.I’m a little dubious about some of the answers that included asshole in the ingredients. I helped butcher a few cows and hogs in my time and when you gut an animal the asshole disappears. But then again it wasn’t a concern at the time.
Why is Uber called that? What's the idea behind choosing this name (it's German and means basically above, over, excess, etc.)? Why do I think it sounds evil?
You think it sounds evil cos you are influenced by hatefull Hollywood movies describing Germans as evil, shouting, militaristic killers. Get some education other than those films and it might improve .... .
What is the old name of Japan?
One of the most prominent names for ancient Japan is Wa. References to Wa can be found in ancient Chinese sources (as China had written records long before Japan). Early Chinese records tended to be priggish and condescending toward the Japanese people. Early Chinese references to Japan also mention Yamatai. Yamatai was a mysterious polity ruled by Queen Himiko (third century), though its location is the subject of much debate.Ancient Japan has also been referred to as Yamato (the name of the clan which became the Imperial Family).Early Western sources referred to Japan as ‘Cipangu’ during the age of exploration (which is first mentioned by Marco Polo).The names Nihon and Nippon both translate as ‘Land of the Rising Sun.’
What do Uber and LYFT stand for, or are they just a name?
Uber was originally called UberCab, because the founders invisioned a taxi service so superior to the crappy taxi companies available in San Francisco at the time. They changed it to Uber when the SFTaxi SFMTA regulators served them a cease and desist for representing themselves as a taxi company when they were a black car service. Uber from the German word über meaning over, above.Lyft needed a more playful alternative four-letter app name that brought to mind carpooling with a friend with a pink mustache on the grill of the car.