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There both portmanteau but Frappuccino combines two things you can envision. A date doesn’t unless the association already existed.

Regardless of its history I venture that 95% of the population hadn’t heard the word before 2020, so it’s not like it was in the public consciousness.

You’re right though, even if almost joined knew about it, it _did_ have a name and so def tough to change it.

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A June and a -teenth is no harder to envision than a Frapp and a CCino. It's a silly tangent.

Agree it’s a silly nitpick of language. I’ll keep picking.

Picturing a frappe and cappuccino gives you a sense for what a Frappuccino _is_. Picturing june and thirteenth/nineteenth only gives you sense for _when_ it is.

In only contend a better name would be one where the name suggests something about the content to someone hearing it for the first time.

The name of the holiday, so named by the people affected, is a century and change old. The problem isn't the quality of the name, which is where we started.

Wait until you hear about September through December not being the 7th through 10th months of the year.

They don’t even give you a sense for _when_ they are. Or, more accurately, they give you the _wrong_ sense for when they are by name alone.

Another American holiday coming up with an equally useless name is Fourth of July. Nobody seems to have a problem with that name, and nobody I know calls it Independence Day. Neither Fourth of July or Juneteenth are great names out of context, but they both have histories behind them and can't be changed anymore.

Heck, Juneteenth is a better name, since it is not literally month+day.

Wait until you hear about Cinco De Mayo!

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