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REBOK / REEBOCK / REEBOX / REEBOOK / REBOOK / REEBOK

On the subject of running shoes, is there an ME associated with the brand REEBOK?

 

Looking through Reddit, there appears to be a myriad of people claiming to remember variations on the spelling of REEBOK... Some remember REBOK, and appear to be genuinely surprised to discover the addition of an "E". Still others claim to remember, REEBOCK, some REEBOX, and improbably REEBOOK and REBOOK get mentioned too! Their numbers are smaller than conventional MEs, so it's easier for skeptics to dismiss these memories, but is there any weight to these claims?

 

Conducting some research, I was surprised at the amount of residue in the various streams. Each query calls up thousands of matches that start to paint a persistent image... is this all spelling errors? Perhaps in some cases, but many articles and adverts repeat words, so it's obvious something like REEBOCK is being used intentionally.

 

Allow me to indulge in some speculative scrying. Many wonder how many different timelines are interacting with our own. The more I research the phenomenon, the more soupy it feels. It's almost as though there are onion layers of "homily dimensions"; with spelling variations revolving around similar phonetics. I wonder if they get increasingly distorted the further they move away from the original source, like ripples in a pond.

 

Presenting just a handful of images I stumbled across in the newspaper archives, but for the curious of mind, it does provide some food for thought!

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Uploaded on February 10, 2018