vook (video + book)

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:11 AM -0400 10/1/09, Laurence Horn wrote:
>At 8:12 AM -0500 10/1/09, Dennis Baron wrote:
>>I saw that, and wondered how to pronounce it?
>>Does it rhyme with book? (I know, cook, look,
>>took, rook). Because for some reason my initial
>>response was to rhyme it with spook or nuke.
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>I'm sure it's "vook".

Oops.  I meant to write '...as in "book".'  I
agree "vook" pronounced as "vook" is not too
helpful.

>   Then there's the spinoff
>for the senior market featuring larger print and
>easier to use digital controls, the "biddy-o".
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>LH
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>>Dennis Baron
>>Professor of English and Linguistics
>>Department of English
>>University of Illinois
>>608 S. Wright St.
>>Urbana, IL 61801
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>>http://www.illinois.edu/goto/debaron
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>>read the Web of Language:
>>http://www.illinois.edu/goto/weboflanguage
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>>On Oct 1, 2009, at 7:46 AM, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
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>>>Subject:      vook (video + book)
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>>>>From today's Times:
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>>>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/books/01book.html
>>>On Thursday, for instance, Simon & Schuster, the publisher of Ernest
>>>Hemingway and Stephen King, is working with a multimedia partner to
>>>release four “vooks,” which intersperse videos throughout electronic
>>>text that can be read — and viewed — online or on an iPhone or iPod
>>>Touch.
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>>>The term was first used in the Times back in
>>>April, but then it was capitalized:
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>>>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/business/05stream.html
>>>Mr. Inman, a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur, calls this
>>>digital amalgam a “Vook,” (vook.tv) and the fledgling company he has
>>>created with that name just might represent a possible future for the
>>>beleaguered book industry.
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>>>Possibly modeled on "blook" (blog + book), a blend that's been around
>>>since 2002.
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>>>--Ben Zimmer
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