[Ads-l] origamo

[Barretts Mail]

Fascinating find. 

That would mean people have reanalyzed “origami” as a count noun, so I went through about 50 Google hits for “many origami” and found nothing to support that (“many origami projects”, etc.) A more detailed search would probably yield something.

I looked briefly at the hits for origamo:

An apparel company which seems to account for the lion’s share of origamo hits - https://origamoapparel.com/ <https://origamoapparel.com/> 
A DOS game - https://www.myabandonware.com/game/origamo-2vx <https://www.myabandonware.com/game/origamo-2vx>
Italian back formation from origami - https://www.divertilandia.it/biglietto-pop-up-origamo-pavone <https://www.divertilandia.it/biglietto-pop-up-origamo-pavone> 

And what appears to be an English usage of origamo for origami:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYZwe9lzbHg <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYZwe9lzbHg>

Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA

> On 10 Mar 2018, at 07:49, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Jane Seymour on CNN speaks of "a sort of origamo thing," i.e. a single ex.
> of origami.
> 
> Thousands of unsifted Google hits on "origamo."


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