Re: Negation

--- On Fri, 12/5/08, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> Subject: Re: [tied] Negation
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, December 5, 2008, 6:41 PM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Some article I read recently was head-scratching over
> 'dweep' and
> 'twerp' with their rare initial consonant
> sequences. Wonder what
> substrate future linguists will infer from those?
>
>
> Torsten

It's dweeb
regarding tw-, we also have twang, twit, twitter, twat (popularized by the former airline logo which repeated TWA over and over), among others