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schema:text	A post on Facebook claims that the name of Covid-19 vaccine developer AstraZeneca translates to ‘weapon that kills’. This is not accurate. On the subject of its name, AstraZeneca has previously explained that it was formed in 1999 after the merger of Swedish pharmaceutical company Astra AB—which took its name from the Greek for ‘a star’—and the UK-based Zeneca Group plc. It said Zeneca is an invented name created by an agency which was instructed to find a name which began with a letter from either the start or end of the alphabet, was memorable, had no more than three syllables and wasn’t offensive in any language. The Facebook post claims that AstraZeneca means ‘weapon that kills’ by saying that ‘Astra’ is the name of a supernatural weapon in Hinduism, while ‘ze’ is the Polish for ‘that’ and ‘necare’—rather than ‘neca’—is the Latin for ‘killing’. This is all true but, needless to say, this is a pretty selective and misleading approach to translation and etymology. You could equally argue that the pharmaceutical giant’s name foretells bad things for the Vauxhall Astra car range, given that ‘ze’ means ‘to’ in Luxembourgish and ‘neca’ is colloquial for ‘nothing’ in Portuguese. The post also warns that the name of market research company Ipsos MORI translates to ‘they die’ in Latin. We have checked this claim before. Although online translators do suggest this, in reality it is garbled and ungrammatical Latin. The name ‘Ipsos MORI’’ actually comes from the merger of two companies and doesn’t mean anything.
schema:mentions	Opel Astra Swedish language Alphabet Polish language Supernatural Ipsos MORI Portuguese language Greek language Pharmaceutical industry Latin Hinduism Warini AstraZeneca Facebook Zeneca Etymology Vauxhall Astra dbpedia:National_Entertainment_Collectibles_Association dbpedia:Luxembourgish dbpedia:COVID-19_vaccine
schema:reviewRating	It doesn’t. This claim is made by selectively choosing definitions from different languages and cultures. AstraZeneca’s name was created from a merger, with ‘Astra’ coming from the Greek for ‘star’.
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schema:datePublished	2021-03-24 (xsd:date)
schema:inLanguage	English
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