From: Robert Coe on
On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:36:05 -0400, tony cooper <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net>
wrote:
: On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:51:45 -0400, Robert Coe <bob(a)1776.COM> wrote:
:
: >On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 11:40:59 -0400, "Peter" <peternew(a)nospamoptonline.net>
: >wrote:
: >: "Pete" <available.on.request(a)aserver.invalid> wrote in message
: >: news:2010060215454060374-availableonrequest(a)aserverinvalid...
: >: > On 2010-06-02 15:27:21 +0100, Peter said:
: >: >
: >: >> "Allen" <allent(a)austin.rr.com> wrote in message
: >: >> news:H5idna7sVZiz-pvRnZ2dnUVZ_oudnZ2d(a)giganews.com...
: >: >>> Robert Coe wrote:
: >: >>> <snip>
: >: >>>>
: >: >>>> Can we induce Google to admit "ellipsicate" into the canon? (Pun
: >: >>>> intended.)
: >: >>>>
: >: >>>> Bob
: >: >>>
: >: >>> Done! only 12 hours or so from your posting date. However, you should
: >: >>> have checked first, as there is an older entry, from June 2005.
: >: >>>
: >: >>> Makes you wonder what newsgroups are doing to the English language.
: >: >>
: >: >>
: >: >> Expandilating it?
: >: >
: >: > Of curse.
: >: >
: >: > I'm thinking of starting a thread just for humour: anecdotes, spoonerisms
: >: > etc. I can't decided on the title or which newsgroup to put it in (don't
: >: > say alt.test), so any thoughts would be appreciated.
: >: >
: >: Yeh! you are right. sometimes some of us, especially me, subcomb to
: >: temptation ...
:
: A "subcomb" is a make-over on a US Navy vessel with an "SS" hull
: number.
:
: >"subcomb"??? I wonder if even Google will dare to pick that up!!!
: >
: >For extra credit: What is the original spelling of the word spelled "Google"
: >by the company that adopted it? And what does the (original) word mean?
: >
: Too easy.

Yeah, you're right. What was I thinking? This is no crowd of newbies.

Bob