From: tgpedersen
Message: 61899
Date: 2008-12-05
>Some article I read recently was head-scratching over 'dweep' and
> 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.