Along the same lines, and more explicitly, in our studies participants said that “…the long ‘a’ in ‘giraffe’ appears fitting for the animal’s long neck” when asked why giraffes have the name they do, and that “only a few different words could possibly describe a glove.” But there’s really no reason the word “glove” describes a glove better than another word that is relatively easy to pronounce and doesn’t have another conflicting meaning. An object and its name often have an arbitrary relationship.