Bill Ricker schrieb:
Plumhead may sound stupid but there's nothing wrong with Plum-Headed
Parakeet spelled correctly with the Hyphen and Three Cap Letters. It's
a real bird whose initials spell PHP, what more could you want in a
name?. O'Reilly's cover editor will be happy, although they may have
to hand-tint the old block to get the evocative colo[u]?ring - they're
quite colo[u]?rful, almost pretty in a garish sort of way, which
somehow seems appropriate for PHP.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum-headed_Parakeet.
(One /could/ be obscure and use the latin name
http://home.wanadoo.nl/psittaculaworld/Mutations/P-cyanocephala.htm )
On the Wikipedia page I liked the sentence:
"Plum-headed Parakeet is a gregarious and noisy species with range
of raucous calls."
This is definitly a good description of PHP.
If what one wants is a short-form of the name that sounds less goofy
than "Plumhead" but still much fewer keystrokes than Plum-Headed
Parakeet , perhaps PHPkeet would serve as a logotype for the longer
formal name with good pun and allusions, and simultaneously serve as a
Google(tm)-able keyword distinct from the aviary variety?
My favourite short form would be "PHParakeet", pronounced as "P - H -
Parakeet".
This still has the PHP in it, but only as a sensible abbreviation of
"Plum-Headed Parakeet".
Regards,
Bernhard