cinnamonlab Boston University

NAQs (Never-Asked Questions)

These are questions about cinnamonlab that no one has asked me (yet), but I imagine someone will one day.

What does “cinnamonlab” mean?
It stands for “cinnamonlab is not Najoung’s, Aaron Mueller’s, or Naomi’s lab.”

What does the logo mean?
I asked Google Gemini to draw me a picture of a cinnamon lab, and this is what it came up with. This is a picture of a cinnamon labrador retriever (a type of dog, apparently), which is what you get if you Google cinnamon lab. However, I was not able to find any evidence that the term “cinnamon labrador” is actually used by dog experts. Instead, it seems that this type of dog is usually known as a “chocolate labrador.”

How do you spell “cinnamonlab”?
Either ⟨Cinnamonlab⟩ or ⟨cinnamonlab⟩. It’s all one word, and it may be capitalized either like a proper noun or like a common noun.

What are the grammatical features of cinnamonlab?
Cinnamonlab is one lexical item, pronounced /ˈsɪnəmɨnˌlæ:b/. Regardless of how you choose to capitalize it, cinnamonlab is a proper noun in the sense that it is a determiner with no complements, whose semantic type is e. Cinnamonlab has the same morphological structure as New York City or JetBlue Airways.

Does cinnamonlab have any relation to Cinnamon Lab or Cinnamon Labs?
No.