On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:19:03 -0500, Mark E. Shoulson <mark@...> wrote:

>> I once thought that mozilla rhymed with godzilla but was corrected.
>> However, I have recently seen it transliterated into Tamil as
>> [modjilla] so I assume that came from /mod-zil-a/, not /mo-zil-a/.
>>
> Mozilla rhymes with Godzilla, though the first vowel is a long o. It
> was derived (I think) from Godzilla combined with the then
> state-of-the-art web browser, Mosaic.

The usual derivation is given as from "Mosaic killer", though clearly
Godzilla is intended to be invoked as well.



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