eGoogle: orthographic blend

[S J Towse]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 15:29:49 -0700, Arnold M. Zwicky
<zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
> i quote a message from a friend, and my reply:
>
> >> You've probably seen this already, but just in case:
> >>
> >> egoGoogle -> e-Google / ego-ogle
> >>
> >> As in "I went egoogling the other day and found out there were 18763
> >> other mes. Bummer."
> >>
> >> Though I presume it's pronounced e-Google, rather than the terribly
> >> clever ego ogle.
> >
> > interesting.  i get piles of hits on "e-google" for google's new Gmail
> > service, but none in the first hundred for this usage.  cute.

Seems like a take-off from ego-surfing, which has been around for an age.

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