Amazoned (was Re: Fwd:: Fiction and / Fiction about Grammar (UNCLASSIFIED))

[Herb Stahlke]

I almost wrote "googled," but it didn't fit.  I hadn't seen it before either.

Herb

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Scot LaFaive <slafaive at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> And I even amazoned him before misspelling his name.
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> Not sure if this has been discussed with any depth here (if so, you are free
> to ignore me but I didn't see it in the archives), but this use of "amazon"
> as a verb (in the same manner as "to google") is new to me. After a quick
> Google search, I didn't find see "to amazon" as to search Amazon.com but
> I did find another verb usage for "amazon."
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> The Boston Globe | June 17, 1999| Steven Syre and Charles Stein, Globe Staff
> "Once companies worried about being taken over. Today they worry about being
> "Amazoned," which means waking up one day and finding that an Internet
> upstart has stolen a big chunk of their business."
> I'm guessing there might be other senses as well.
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> Scot
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> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> And I even amazoned him before misspelling his name.
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>> Herb
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>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Mark Mandel <Mark.A.Mandel at gmail.com>
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>> > Yes, but it's "Delany" with only one "e".
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>> > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com>
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>> >> Samuel Delaney has been one
>> >> of the more thoughtful scifi writers who use linguistic concepts in
>> >> their work.
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>> >> Herb
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