Acronym-etymologies > SPAM name origin > spam-ku

[Mark A Mandel]

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Laurence Horn wrote:

#instance of etymythology in action.

I *like* that word!!

I picked this quote up from somebody's sig, but I don't remember whose:

The fact is, man is an etymologizing animal. He abhors the vacuum of
an unmeaning word. If it seems lifeless, he reads a new soul into it,
and often, like an unskillful necromancer, spirits the wrong soul into
the wrong body. -- The Rev. A. Smythe Palmer, Folk-Etymology, 1890

-- Mark A. Mandel