At least I assume it wasn’t around before the U.K. began pinging https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/whats-a-pingdemic-and-why-is-the-uk-having-one/2021/07/21/dcff530e-ea12-11eb-a2ba-3be31d349258_story.html LH ------------------------------------------------------------ The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org