"Blawg"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Dec 29, 2007 11:50 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>
> At 12/29/2007 07:44 AM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
> >I should have checked out whether this was actually old news.  It is
> >interesting that "blawg" was initially dismissed as a "witty
> >one-off," but has clearly become the standard term for a law blog
> >and has over 800,000 Google hits.
>
> Perhaps because it is reminiscent (at least to me) of "blah", as in
> "blah, blah, blah"?

Fans of "Arrested Development" will recall the Bob Loblaw Law Blog.
(Works best for cot/caught mergerers.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arrested_Development_characters#Bob_Loblaw


--Ben Zimmer

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