‘Help! I’m A Law Student…’ was a descriptive blog name; one which was quite self-explanatory. However, after the recent rebranding of my blog, I decided to change the name to ‘The Lawster’. Now my readers took the change in a positive manner, but I have been asked a repeated question via Twitter – ‘What does Lawster mean?’
At first it may seem like a generic name, but deep down it does have a hidden meaning. The word itself not mean anything in particular, however when the word is broken down it seems less generic. Let’s take a look by breaking ‘Lawster’ into three parts:
- Law = this part is fairly straightforward as it is the main topic of the blog, and also the course in which I am studying.
- St = the main meaning of this part is to stand for ‘student’, however it has a duel meaning and could also stand for ‘stories’, which is especially useful for when I have graduated from Law School, but still wish to continue updating the blog.
- Er = the final part of the word stands for ‘Europe’, and I was originally planning on spelling it as ‘Eur’ to make the meaning a little clearer, but after a lot of careful consideration I decided that it would make the name harder to pronounce as a whole. Additionally, spelling it as ‘Eur’ could have caused some confusion with spelling, so I decided against that spelling and dropped the ‘u’, producing the name ‘Lawster’.
The plan behind the new blog name was to create a name which is short, generic and easy to spell, whilst still consisting of a meaning which helps to describe what information the blog is going to contain. So whilst the blog name may seem generic and un-thought out a first glance, it does have a deeper and more significant meaning!
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