Re[2]: [tied] Negation

At 4:12:21 PM on Friday, December 5, 2008, Piotr Gasiorowski
wrote:

> Some words (admittedly, not _many_, but certainly _some_,
> especially of "expressive" origin) are coined from scratch
> (e.g. <google> or <zoom>).

Not that it matters, but strictly speaking, <google> wasn't
coined *quite* from scratch: it was a deliberate play on
<googol>, which (so far as I know) *was* coined from scratch
by Edward Kasner's nephew.

Brian