There is a cleaning service called Thoreau Services, Inc. Nationwide . I don't think the name of Henry David Thoreau, one of the great American thinkers, an Abolitionist and inspiration of both Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King, Jr., should be tied to a janitorial service that wants to imply that they are a) clever, and b) thorough. Not that it's not honorable work, but come on.
I do not approve of that literary pun any more than I approve of a license plate my friend Chris once saw parked in the faculty parking lot outside the English Department of our university that said, "Eyre Go." No on likes a smugly punny English teacher.
If you want to say ergo, or anything else awesome, here's how it's done:
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