Coconutty Health & Wellbeing

If you’re interested in finding out what people are saying about coconut oil, have a look at

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/coconut_oil_open_forum/

Recently, I made this post:

A question for all you wordsmiths out there - is ‘coconutty’ a real

word? I promote coconut oil and soaps at markets and shows, using the

name ‘Coconutty’ as it describes my passion for all things coconut.

However, it doesn’t appear to be in the dictionary, and even worse - it

doesn’t even count in a game of scrabble! Strangely though, a Google

search of the word ‘coconutty’ brings up over 47,000 results. Also it’s

used time and again in this forum.

If anyone could shed any light on this puzzle, I’d love to hear. Do you

think it should be put forward as a ‘proper’ word? Can it even be

called a ‘word’? Maybe we could start a campaign?

Matthew

If you are looking for a grammar rule approach it from the back end LOL “ty”

The suffix “ty” changes a noun to an adjective describing the state of or

the quality of.

Just my funny mind at play

Cathy

— In coconut_oil_open_forum@yahoogroups.com, “J.Keliipio”

<Josephina@…> wrote:

> 

> You can make up any word you want.

> That is what marketing firms do all the time.

> Who said it needs to be in a dictionary first or

> that it has to be a real word?

> Go ahead and use coconutty. Its a very descriptive adjective for

anything coconut. I like it.

I agree that a word can be and SHOULD be made up to suit the

circumstance or description of something.  Dictionaries frequently

add lists of new words gleaned from repeated use in real life.  I

heard that recently a major dictionary publisher has done just that.

Personally, I have made a number of cooked products that can only be

described as COCONUTTY!!  The recipes that I found using coconut

flour and without grains can only be described as COCONUTTY.  You can

give recipes many descriptive titles, but the comment below the Title

of a recipe with pronounced coconut taste can only be:  Very

Coconutty! ~~~Janet

COCONUTTY!

I like the sound of it.  It has a beat.

We want to tell the whole world about the amazing health benefits of Coconuts. If you’re COCO-NUTTY and want to get involved, you could host Coconut Parties, become a Reseller or promote CocoNutty in other ways. For more information, please email info@coconutty.co.uk or comment on this post.

Internet shopping can be addictive. Tap a few buttons and within days your new parcel lands on the doorstep. Fantastic. What’s this got to do with coconuts? Currently there are over thirty coconut oil website sellers in the UK alone, all desperate for you to tap their buttons.

In 2006, when I was just starting to look into all this, I tapped a few coconut buttons and ended up with about twelve different coconut parcels. If you’re buying coconut oil for its health benefits, you might as well find a good one. Without having access to scientific analysis machines, I checked out the colour, aroma and taste. Result? Shades of white varied more than a Dulux paint chart. Some tasted of fresh coconut; some of cooked coconut; some had a ‘burnt’ smell; one smelt so bad there’s no way you’d risk tasting it. Ok, hardly a scientific test, but the differences were obvious.

Herein lies the problem. Every Internet seller says that their particular brand is the best; that theirs is made like no one else’s and that if your computer screen could hand out to you a sample of their amazing product, you would be in absolute awe at the quality. Trouble is you don’t know. You can’t know until you buy. It’s a leap of faith.

Which is why hopefully, CocoNutty is different. Instead of being just an Internet company operating behind the curtain of cyberspace, CocoNutty is a living, breathing stall coming to a place near you (that is if you live in the North of England!). You can visit the stall and try before you buy. Taste the coconut oil and apply it to your skin. See, smell and touch the natural coconut soaps. On warm days you can even try the purest isotonic drink on earth - coconut water. And you can find out how the result of those first coconut parcels led in the direction of award-winning Philippine manufacturer CocoVida.

See you there!