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** In the realm of 'might-have-been': TWA once considered buying and merging in Texas Air.
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* The publishing company [http://www.randomhouse.com/ Random House] occasionally uses the form RandomHouse. Likewise, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100407051259/http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/Pages/Home.aspx HarperCollins] is one word.<ref>Formed from the merger of William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd. and Harper & Row; Harper & Row was itself formed from the merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company.</ref> Could be worse; they used to be HarperCollins''Publishers'' (yes, the italics are part of it).
* Indeed, many companies formed by mergers now have names that look like multiple rear-end pileups of words. ExxonMobil and GlaxoSmithKline<ref>Glaxo Wellcome + SmithKline Beecham</ref> to name but two. To the extent that people have now started doing it with names that ''aren't'' in CamelCase, just because they expect it. Eurostar being written as EuroStar is one that is used in everyday life a lot.
* At some point the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team officially took on "D-Backs" as a alternative naming. The gothic font they used on their uniforms further renamed them the ''O-Backs''.
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