1) adidas : " All Day I Dream About Sports "
2) yahoo : yet another Hierarchical official oracle
3) puma : Person Underestimating Me is an Animal
4)icici bank : Earlier it was "Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India".
Now it is has no full form and it is simply ICICI Bank as a private entity and a private bank
5) hdfc bank :HDFC Bank Ltd. itself is the full name of the bank.
The bank was promoted by HDFC a housing finance institution in the year 1994. Full name of HDFC is Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd.
2) yahoo : yet another Hierarchical official oracle
3) puma : Person Underestimating Me is an Animal
4)icici bank : Earlier it was "Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India".
Now it is has no full form and it is simply ICICI Bank as a private entity and a private bank
5) hdfc bank :HDFC Bank Ltd. itself is the full name of the bank.
The bank was promoted by HDFC a housing finance institution in the year 1994. Full name of HDFC is Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd.
1. BMW
BMW means Bayerische Motoren Werke, which translates to "Bavarian Motor Works."
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2. L.L. Bean
The company was founded by Leon Leonwood Bean.
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3. CVS
CVS originally stood for Consumer Value Stores. Over time the name became simply CVS.
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4. YKK
Those letters on seemingly every zipper stand for Yoshida K?gy? Kabushikigaisha, which translates to "Yoshida Manufacturing Corporation."
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5. A&W
The A and W of A&W are (Roy) Allen and (Frank) Wright.
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6. M&M's
M&M’s stands for Mars & Murrie’s, the last names of the candy’s founders. Matt Soniak recently wrote about Forrest Mars, Sr. and Bruce Murrie's famous partnership.
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7. 3M
3M is a shorter, snazzier way to say Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing.
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8. HSBC
HSBC stands for Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
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9. TCBY
You probably know TCBY means The Country's Best Yogurt, but it didn't always. TCBY was "This Can't Be Yogurt" until they were sued by I Can't Believe It's Yogurt!, a rival frozen yogurt chain.
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10. Kmart
Kresge is the K in Kmart, for founder Sebastian S. Kresge.
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11. DSW Shoes
DSW is short for Designer Shoe Warehouse, which makes DSW Shoes the ATM machine and PIN number of the retail footwear game.
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12. JCPenney
James Cash Penney.
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13. CBS
Columbia Broadcasting System. (Earlier this year, Erica Hill, Charlie Rose and Gayle King started working mental_floss facts into CBS This Morning. Love seeing the facts on TV!)
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14. TASER
TASER stands for Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle. (Nobody has whipped out a TASER around me of late, so I broke down and used a screenshot.)
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15. smart car
A collaboration between Swatch and Mercedes, smart car is short for Swatch Mercedes Art (car).
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16. ZIP Code
ZIP = Zone Improvement Plan. Smokey The Bear has his own ZIP Code. In case you want to fire off a fan letter, it's 20252.
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17. USA PATRIOT Act
That's the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism" Act to you. Back to the photos...
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18. P.G. Wodehouse
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse.
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19. A.A. Milne
Alan Alexander Milne.
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20. E.B. White
Elwyn Brooks White.
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21. P.D. Eastman
Philip Dey Eastman.
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22. Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter Stockton Thompson.
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23. J.R.R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
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24. CC Sabathia
Carsten Charles Sabathia.
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25. Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox's middle name is Andrew.
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26. NECCO
New England Confectionery COmpany.
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27. F.A.O. Schwarz
Frederick August Otto Schwarz founded the toy company with his brothers.
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28. DHL
DHL = (Adrian) Dalsey, (Larry) Hillblom and (Robert) Lynn.
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29. Chuck E. Cheese's
Chuck E. Cheese's middle name is Entertainment. (I believe reader Trivia Wayne told us that one.)
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30. ALF
Gordon Shumway's nickname is an acronym for Alien Life Form.
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31. Rutherford B. Hayes
That B stands for Birchard. While we're talking presidential middle names, don't forget James Knox Polk, James Abram Garfield, Chester Alan Arthur, Warren Gamaliel Harding, and Richard Milhous Nixon