Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/29

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Subject: [Leica] Re: the Kodak name
From: "Paul Bolam" <Paul@bolam67.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 13:24:13 +0100
 
As far as I can recall from my college days, G.Eastman chose the name
"Kodak" as it has no meaning in foreign languages.

In particular, he wanted a name that could not be mis-construed as a
swear-word when translated.

As I'm not multi-lingual, I've never been able to test this theory.
Cheers,
Paul