[Lexicog] McJob

Margaret Marks margaret.marks at GMAIL.COM
Thu May 24 09:53:20 UTC 2007


When Google got the German Duden to change the definition of the verb
googeln from searching to Internet to searching the Internet using Google,
they didn't go through Parliament.

But is it correct, as said in the following link, that Dan Quayle once tried
to pass a resolution to change the dictionary definition of hoosier?
http://mr-verb.blogspot.com/2006/08/can-dictionaries-list-to-google-as.html

Margaret Marks
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