Nicholas Bodley wrote:

>
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 15:31:17 -0500, Peter T. Daniels
> <grammatim@...> wrote:
>
> >> According to a story, probably true, Geo. Eastman invented "Kodak" as a
> >> word that should be easy to say in most of the world's languages.
> >
> > There are probably a lot more languages that don't allow final
> > consonants than do.
>
> Indeed. One wonders about Mr. Eastman's knowledge of languages. Thank you
> for the reminder.

He was said to have come up with a word that imitated the shutter-click.
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