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well maybe there could've been an uptick but Amazon ruined it (or maybe even amazon was responsible for the uptick in 2015?). I know from Germany that short, ph
by Tarsul 6y ago
well maybe there could've been an uptick but Amazon ruined it (or maybe even amazon was responsible for the uptick in 2015?). I know from Germany that short, phonetically nice sounding names are "in" and I'd guess it's similar in the US. Alexa does sound nice, actually. Probably why Amazon took it, even.
- ghaff 6y agoI assume there are also distinctiveness considerations. I'm guessing the "ex" phoneme is natural to pronounce but not super-common in English. And 3 syllables is probably a good compromise between distinctiveness and being too long.