Canon inc. the company originating from Japan, derives its company name from transliteration in latin characters of the Japanese pronunciation of 
Ka'non the Taoist/Buddhist deity Goddess of Mercy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guan_Yin.
A check of the Kanji characters of Canon as incorporated in Japan will verify this.
It is therefore not an English word, just as my name has nothing to do with suntan or tin cans or anyone's wee wee -just a transliteration of the phonetics of a southern chinese pronunciation of the chinese name Chen Dingwei.
Bestrgds
Tan Tin Wee (family name Tan!)



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From: Carlos A. Afonso <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 9:00 PM
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Subject: Re: .canon

And in Portuguese (cânon or cânone), with of course the same meaning as
the original Arab word... I think after the latest reform of Portuguese
the "little hat" in "cânon" is no longer used, so it is now just "canon".

--c.a.

Jorge Amodio wrote:
> It's also a spanish word. Will be interesting to find out what are
> they planning to use it for.
> 
> I find it amusing seeing announcements for something that it does not
> exist yet or it's not yet 100% clear how to get and when you will get
> it, and the argument that people will remember ".canon" better than
> ".canon.com", well is borderline stupid.
> 
> Cheers
> Jorge
> 
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Rafik Dammak <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> no it is not only a English word as there is "canon" in French too which its
>> origin is from Arab word  "قانون" or law :) ironic :)
>> Rafik
>>
>> 2010/3/17 David Cake <[log in to unmask]>
>>>        Is Canon the first official announcement of intent to register a
>>> ".brand" gTLD?
>>> http://www.canon.com/news/2010/mar16e.html
>>>        A reasonably interesting test case - it is, of course, an English
>>> language word as well as a brand. pachelbels.canon, anyone?
>>>        Regards
>>>                David
>>
> 

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