<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 07 October 2007 - Volume 01</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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=========================================================================</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span>
<span id="_user_ben.j.bloomgren@gmail.com" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"Ben J. Bloomgren" <<a href="mailto:ben.j.bloomgren@gmail.com">ben.j.bloomgren@gmail.com</a>></span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Names" 2007.10.06 (05) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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</span><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span class="q"><div><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">According to the Wikipedia, the name Google started
as a misspelling of "googol." I assume it was a deliberate misspelling, intended
to be "suggestive,"</span></font></div></span><span class="q"></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="q">
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<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">But then where does the Googley ball come from in
cricket or the guy that's gone googly-eyed over that hot
bird/chick?</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Ben<br><br>----------<br><br></font>From: <span id="_user_sandy@scotstext.org" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Sandy Fleming</span><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg">
<<a href="mailto:sandy@scotstext.org">sandy@scotstext.org</a>></span><br>Subject: LL-L "Names" 2007.10.06 (05) [E]<br>
<br><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="q">> From: Kevin & Cheryl Caldwell <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net">kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net
</a>><br>> Subject: LL-L "Names" 2007.10.06 (04) [E/LS]<br>><br>> Of course, "googol" itself is a made-up word, coined by a child whose<br>> mathematician uncle asked him what he should call 1 followed by 100
<br>> zeroes.<br>><br>> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol</a><br><br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr;">
But the question nobody seems to ask is, what did Milton Sirotta _mean_<br>by it? Was English his first language or does it make some sense in<br>whatever his first language was? Children do make up nonsense words but<br>
they tend to come from somewhere, often with phonetic alteration.<br><br>There used to be a story that the word "quasar" was originated by a<br>child calling them "cwazy stellar objects", which inspired the more
<br>scientific-looking version of the name. Neither Wikipedia nor a Google<br>search give any enlightenment on this, however.<br></div><span class="sg"><br>Sandy Fleming<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">
http://scotstext.org/</a></span><br><font size="2"><br></font></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <<a href="mailto:ingmar.roerdinkholder@WORLDONLINE.NL">ingmar.roerdinkholder@WORLDONLINE.NL</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"></span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2007.10.06 (04) [E/LS]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Thanks everyone for your googol of information about Google.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">About googoo eyes: I've often heard my friend from Sierra Leone (West</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Africa) using the word 'Googoo' to warn or scare her 2 yrs old daughter</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">not to go in a particular place. "No, watch out, don't go there, Googoo is
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">there." Or "Googoo will take you if you go there." She sometimes uses the</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">word "Boogieman" as well, but I think not exactly in the same sense.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Arend, ik hadde vrogger een collega die "Kuttschenreuter" hiette, da's</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">dezölfde name. 't Betiekent gewoon "Koetsenruiter" of "Koetsenrijder"
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">in 't Duuts, lek mij. Ie begriept wel dat iene mit zo'n name vake vanalles</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">te heuren kreg.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Ingmar</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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