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Re: THEORY: lexical shift [was Re: Time machine]

From:Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>
Date:Saturday, July 13, 2002, 15:06
On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 00:52, Muke Tever wrote:

> 4 - It borrows commercial terms, e.g. xerox(tm), picard(tm) maneuver
What's a Picard manoeuvre[1]? [1]: Just a question about the American spelling of that word. Had /nj/ > /n/ already happened by the time American spellings were redone? 'maneuver' really suggests /m{nj@v@(r)/ as it's pronunciation. (cf. e.g. 'euphemism'.)
> Brand *spanking* new words are more likely to come out of 1 and 4, although > science invents a few every now and then ('google' as mentioned, 'quark' > lifted out of FW). Both science and everyday language are probably more > likely to create words out of new combinations of old morphemes.
'Googol', actually. The popular search engine re-spelt it to look more English, but 'googol' is still the correct spelling of the word for 10^100. Tristan.