Mont Blanc, MontBlanc, or Montblanc

[MYU]

I've searched high and low and couldn't find anything about it in this sub forum...

 

I have noticed people referring to the brand in the 3 different ways listed in the topic. On the Google search results for their website, it states "Visit the official Montblanc Website and experience the beauty and variety of the Montblanc...". In Wikipedia, it is referred to in this way as well. So, that leads me to believe that splitting up the name into two parts or capitalizing the 'B' is incorrect.

 

Thoughts?

[sumgaikid]

Perhaps the difference in spelling can be attributed to what the name originally referred to,i.e.,

the famous mountain itself. In that respect,I think it would be perfectly OK to separate the name

into two words with capitalization on both words(Mont Blanc)if you're referring to the mountain.

Apparently when googling the term,google recognizes it as a single word(Montblanc)much as the

company does--with no need to capitalize the "B".

 

John

[emes441]

 

I was wondering the same thing. I personally spell it Mont Blanc, but how can I refute MB's own website.

 

(P.S. You can't go wrong with MB)

[Pravda]

I think Mont Blanc is the mountain on which the brand has been named, and the actual brand name is Montblanc. I do not think MontBlanc is a proper notation in any sense..

 

That being said, I could almost swear that I have seen it Mont Blanc on the website but now I checked and it feels like it has been recently changed?

[Pravda]

On second thought.. that means that all of us lot shouldn't be abbreviating the pens MB but rather M? :hmm1:

[Titivillus]

Montblanc

[asimplemaestro]

Montblanc

 

Ditto

[Bananafish]

IIRC, Montblanc-Simplo GmbH registered both "Mont Blanc" & "Montblanc" as their trademark and servicemark, so I'd think it wouldn't be heretical usage either way

[Fernan]

I never paid any attention to this topic before MYU brought it to our attention.

 

From now on, it will Montblanc for me.

 

 

Fernan

[JewelryPen]

"Its subject mountains their unearthly forms

Pile around it, ice and rock; broad vales between

Of frozen floods, unfathomable deeps,

Blue as the overhanging heaven, that spread

And wind among the accumulated steeps;

A desert peopled by the storms alone,"

 

I think we should all start quoting Shelley whenever we talk about our pens.

Baring that,

 

The pen boxes are clearly labled:

MONT

BLANC

Which is, perhaps, the opposite of useful. I severely doubt that any of us will take up spelling it MONT/BLANC

 

The pens are slightly more helpful, spelling it MONTBLANC.

 

So, I tend towards either MB Montblanc or MontBlanc - but always leaving out the spaces

 

[yachtsilverswan]

I think Mont Blanc is the mountain on which the brand has been named, and the actual brand name is Montblanc. I do not think MontBlanc is a proper notation in any sense..

 

Pravda is precisely correct: Mont Blanc is the highest peak in Europe - Montblanc is a pen company (er... make that purse company, no wait...)

 

[teebo]

Boy that is a good point. :hmm1:

 

I am glad this subject was brought up as I would have been afraid to ask.

 

Todd

[evgeny0ukr]

Yes indeed years ago I mentioned that on the boxes

MONT

BLANC

is written separately (on different lines) and because of this I thought it could be separate, but on the paper labels (on the same boxes) Montblanc is written together. I used to write MontBlanc which is something in the middle and indeed a wrong spelling

I realise that the correct way is Montblanc, but when I see Mont Blanc or MontBlanc I am perfectly OK and understand what is it

 

[Pen Nut]

Yep Montblanc it is. Now then somewhere in my fading head is a memory of compiling a judges list for the Rolls-Royce club and being told under no circumstances should the term Rolls-Royces ever be used. The correct term is, so I was instructed, Rolls-Royce motor cars.

 

Below a picture taken at the event (at Althorp House by the way ) containing many club members cars was the caption

" A fine gathering of club members Rolls-Royce motor cars "

 

Its some quirky English thing but its actual reasons & usage I cant recall.

 

My point is do I have a collection of Montblancs or a collection of Montblanc writing instruments ??

Edited December 3, 2008 by Pen Nut

[Michael R.]

Below a picture taken at the event (at Althorp House by the way ) containing many club members cars was the caption

" A fine gathering of club members Rolls-Royce motor cars "

 

 

Where is it? We want to see the Motor Cars

 

Michael

[Pen Nut]

Althorp House is in Northamptonshire England and its where the R-R.E.C. had its annual rally that was before the untimely death of its former resident whose brother still to this day lives there. The lady in question is Diana Spencer former wife of Prince Charles. Earl Spencer still resides there with his family.

 

The popularity of visits to Althorp following Dianas death meant the club had to relocate the annual rally.

 

Dianas body rests on an island in the middle of a lake within the grounds of Althorp, I think its called the Oval Lake, and its well worth a visit if stately homes and gardens interest you.

 

Earl Spencer wanders around the estate during public visits and talks freely to anyone who speaks to him.

 

The picture I mention is long published and gone now but the club does have its own website. www.rrec.org.uk where pictures / links can be viewed.

 

Regards

 

Ian

Edited December 3, 2008 by Pen Nut

[yachtsilverswan]

Yep Montblanc it is. Now then somewhere in my fading head is a memory of compiling a judges list for the Rolls-Royce club and being told under no circumstances should the term Rolls-Royces ever be used. The correct term is, so I was instructed, Rolls-Royce motor cars...

 

Its some quirky English thing but its actual reasons & usage I cant recall.

 

My point is do I have a collection of Montblancs or a collection of Montblanc writing instruments ??[/font][/size][/color]

 

One of my favorite guilty pleasures is the British comedy from the 1980s, "To the Manor Born," telling the story of an aristocratic widow turned out of her family's ancestral manor house. The widow, Mrs. Forbes-Hamilton, takes with her to far more humble digs her vintage Rolls Royce and her faithful butler.

 

One of the recurring jokes in the series comes when Mrs. Forbes-Hamilton is asked whether that's her Rolls, or alternatively whether that's her Rolls Royce. She always says, "No, but that is my Rolls Royce Motorcar."

 

I do love the subtlety and rightness of well bred English.

 

-Ray (closet grammar Nazi)

Edited December 4, 2008 by yachtsilverswan

[niksch]

My point is do I have a collection of Montblancs or a collection of Montblanc writing instruments ??

 

Montblanc writing instruments.. Mundane, but accurate.

Eric

[niksch]

re-thought my joke about Ray's post after a couple of back channels with him, and I've decided to delete it.

 

It was supposed to be ironic, but was hard to convey in plain text.

 

Eric

Edited December 4, 2008 by niksch

[Pen Nut]

To Ray (closet grammer nazi)

 

There is a hypen between Rolls and Royce. Always got pulled for that one as well