A Weird Record
Evan Williams must hold the record for “The Most People Using the Most Words He Created in the Least Time”, or something like that. First “blog“, “blogger” and now “twitter“. Is he the Bill Shakespeare of the 21st century? (Ok, I am being facetious.)
But seriously, is there anyone else who has added words to the language that have become ubiquitous so fast? I’d like to hear your thoughts.
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I invented the word ‘elugriv’ for the backslash (\). It’s the world ‘virgule’ backward, which is the name of the forward slash (/). However, it hasn’t even made it as far as wikipedia.com, much less general usage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash
You are a budding Shakespeare, my friend. I will forthwith begin using the word “elugriv” when what I really mean is “backslash”, not just because it makes me appear more erudite than I really am, but also because it saves One Entire Letter.