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Yesterday, we rolled out a popular post titled, How big businesses actually got their names. (That fascinating post here) Surprisingly, most of those big businesses conjured their brand names by using bits and pieces of the founders' or businesses' initials and nicknames, then cobbled the various acronyms together to form the popular brand names you recognize so well today. For example, SEGA is shortened from SErvice GAmes of Japan.
A lively discussion ensued in theCHIVE comment section and we received dozens of emails from people asking how theCHIVE got its name. Most Chivers speculate that theCHIVE (pronounced like the plant) spawned from The Onion or is perhaps shortened from arCHIVE (pronounced with a hard k)? Not at all, actually.
The real answer might surprise you. How theCHIVE got its name is really a tale of two cities. We started theCHIVE in 2008. At the time, Leo was working in Chicago and John was in Venice Beach...
So is if it is the Chi from Chicago (pronounced "shy") then is it pronounced "the Shy-ve"??? That puts the Du in Duche!
I´m a chocorrol XD saludos de mexico
and how do you pronounce it?
I was wrong again! Not "CHIcks that gave us a VEnereal disease".
HOW IS IT PRONOUNCED??????????????????????????
i know im late but this site beats the fuck out of chive.com
So it's not pronounced 'kive'? I thought it was short for Archive, as well.
So how do you pronounce the name of the site, like the plant or arChive?
Shive on?
LAME!
Chive (Kive) on it has been to all of us and so it shall remain.
make money olnineIt also got me to wondering what it is that people get from these things. Do people really draw motivation from this stuff? I have been reading Darren Brown’s Tricks of the Mind , or at least re- reading sections of it, this week. He points out that
Why is the C green?
My guess would be sunlight hitting algae and plant life through the water, and their colors reflecting up to the surface.
You guys can’t read????? Shive? No. Kive?? No. Sound it out CH-I-VE.
Last!!!
Thank God for thsi post, I always assumed it was short for archive, and my brother said chive the plant