Frisbee Plastics, the original molder. After learning that he could produce his own disc more cheaply, in 1955 Morrison designed a new model, the Pluto Platter, the archetype of all modern flying discs. He sold the rights to Wham-O on January 23, 1957, and in 1958 Morrison was awarded U.S. Design Patent D183,626 for his product. In June 1957, Wham-O co-founders Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin gave the disc the brand name "Frisbee" (pronounced "friz'-bee") after learning that Northeastern college students were calling the Pluto Platter by that term, which derived from the name of the Connecticut-based pie manufacturer, Frisbie
Generic antecedent the pronouns as generic and hence gender-unspecific. Ambiguity arises from the possibility that the listener might interpret the meaning differently from what the speaker intended. Speakers of all languages use words "both" to make distinctions "and" to generalize: What has become controversial among users of English is the choice of pronoun to refer back to a generalized, and hence generic, singular antecedent such as "any parent", or "every parent". In contrast, since plural generic antecedents such as "parents" must be referred to by the plural pronoun "they", and since in English "they" is gender-unspecific, no controversy arises for a plural