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  • mydo0

    I like this... from this http://stuartsmithsblog.com/tag/…

    Mike Pocock, Yell’s chief executive, claims to have a cunning plan. He’s actually proud of the fact that hibu (unlike its predecessor, Yell) is a meaningless word. Yes, readers, unironically he spells it out for us: “high-boo”. As opposed to “low-boo.”

    Apparently, trendily ungrammatical hibu (lower case ‘h’, with some meaningless umlauts thrown in) is going to “connect” with under-25 year olds for whom telephone directories are relics.

    What was wrong with calling it yellow pages?
    Retro is in these days.

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