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I was so excited to come up with a character nickname in a story I'm working on: Red Talon.

As it turns out, it's a paramilitary group in a video game I never played. Green Talon is a tractor company. Silver Talon makes knives. Blue Talon is a bar. I bet I could change the character name to Red Hoof and there'd be somebody who already uses that name.

Unless you misspell words, there's pretty much no way of finding a combination of two words that haven't been put together in some capacity. We have billions of people on this planet and the vast majority of them have had access to social media for a quarter of a century. Of the millions of possible combinations, somebody somewhere has already gotten to the one you're thinking of. Maybe I could have Redd Tallon and not get sued.