A friend has used the name of Alexander the Great's horse as basis for her email.
Bucephalus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Or how easily it is to confuse with different letters and numbers.See below list.
Certain numbers and / letters should not be used!
Just one example: NEVER use the lower case of the letter L: it is identical essentially with the number 1
The number seven is too close to the number one: remember how the Europeans write the number one!?
There are scores of no - nos:
The most infamous is the bane of the modern world: the ZERO and letter O.
Or Letters O D Q
V U
E F
P R
I J
S 5
5 6
G 6
i, Capital I and the umber one 1
Problems continue and are deemed out of the realm of this simple fun analysis.
I tell you when I tried to swap emails with my cousin in Hungary some years ago, I was befuddled that the ubiquitous @ was designated as 'WORM' in Hungarian!
There is not much one can do about this except wonder how a standard shopping list entity became the basis of a new character in the world of emails.
Maybe wars could be declared as a result of grievances over perceived insults?
Why, if Jihad is now configured as a mere struggle by the Muslims - I do not fancy trying to swap email addresses with them.
Bucephalus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucephalus
Bucephalus or Bucephalas (c. 355 BC – June 326 BC) was the horse of Alexander the Great, and one of the most famous actual horses of antiquity. Ancient ...
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Ever tried long division in Roman numerals?
How did they survive for maybe 1000 years? It was in spite of Roman numerals
https://www.google.com.au/#q=how+did+the+roman+empire+survived+for+so+long
Anyone ever seen Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious as basis of an email?
I think the possibility exists
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - Wikipedia, the free ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SupercalifragilisticexpialidociousSupercalifragilisticexpialidocious was first added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 1986 and, as of March 2014, does not appear in the Merriam-Webster ...
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