I heard it stands for Sun Oil of New York but that sounds very wrong. But he insists it's true, I just wanted to know what the real answer is.
2007-03-18 13:59:14 · 2 answers · asked by murf451 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Corporations
The name "Sony" was chosen for the brand as a mix of the Latin word sonus, which is the root of sonic and sound, the English word "sunny", and from the word Sonny-boys which is Japanese slang for "whiz kids". However "Sonny" was thought to sound too much like the Japanese saying soh-nee which means business goes bad. Morita (one of the founders of Sony) pushed for a word that does not exist in any language so that they could claim the word "Sony" as their own (which paid off when they sued a candy producer who also used the name who claimed that "Sony" was just an existing word in some language).
2007-03-18 14:03:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anon Helper 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a name. The letters don't mean anything. Does Ford mean "fix or repair daily ?"... ;)
2007-03-18 21:05:06 · answer #2 · answered by Vinegar Taster 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋