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Did they want us to stop using it as a verb?

posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 09:59am on 20/09/2006
One man went to Google, went to Google a meadow...
And got Results 1 - 10 of about 37,700,000 for meadow
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posted by [identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com at 09:04am on 20/09/2006
I dunno why Google think that they get to decide on what's an English verb :-)
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posted by [identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com at 09:06am on 20/09/2006
It's trademark law - so long as they can be seen to be defending their trademark against dilution, they get to keep it.

Excuse me, I have to go hoover the fridge.
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posted by [identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com at 09:11am on 20/09/2006
So the law requires risible and ineffectual bleating about inevitable language progression? Why am I not surprised :-) (I did know about the trademark thing really :-)
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posted by [identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com at 09:19am on 20/09/2006
It's one of those places where law and common sense meet, and neither exactly wins.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 09:24am on 20/09/2006
What about John D. Loudermilk's song, Google Eye?
http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/g/googleeye.shtml
The word must have meant something before the ubiquitous search engine used it.
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posted by [identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com at 10:10am on 20/09/2006
I googled for 'Bellinghman' a while back. I discovered a reference to the US city Bellingham. Now, I can understand me making that typo, since I type my nickname more frequently than my actual surname, but for someone else to manage to mistype 'am' as 'man' is fairly impressive.

So, I wonder if it's even possible to make up a name that hasn't been used by someone, somewhere, sometime before, even if only accidentally.

(I suspect 'google' in those lyrics was intended as a semi-nonsense word.)
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posted by [identity profile] tanngrisnir.livejournal.com at 10:27am on 20/09/2006
I don't know the song, but when I saw that comment by [livejournal.com profile] bugshaw I realised that I had heard the expression google-eyed on and off for a couple of decades at least, usually in the mouths of Americans. Perhaps a corruption of goggle?

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posted by [identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com at 10:43am on 20/09/2006
Aha. Perhaps it's one of them Jazz words. It sounds suitably onomatopoeic.
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posted by [personal profile] muninnhuginn at 10:21am on 20/09/2006
Just remember to take all the biros out first ;-)
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posted by [identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com at 10:25am on 20/09/2006
Oh, those will dissolve in the diesel.
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posted by [identity profile] ianmcdonald.livejournal.com at 09:09am on 20/09/2006
I think the thing si to establish it in near universal popular use, and therefore it should not be capitalised.
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posted by [identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com at 09:12am on 20/09/2006
The 'G' will inevitably fade to 'g' with time.
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posted by [identity profile] aardvark179.livejournal.com at 09:44am on 20/09/2006
One man and his dog named spot got about 15,200,000.
"One man and his dog named spot" got 4
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posted by [identity profile] watervole.livejournal.com at 11:55am on 20/09/2006
But, "One man and his dog, Spot" got 53 hits. That's how I always sing it.
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posted by [identity profile] akicif.livejournal.com at 03:35pm on 20/09/2006
We always sang "One man and his dog (wuff-wuff)" - which gets nowt!
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posted by [identity profile] watervole.livejournal.com at 05:35pm on 20/09/2006
Our full version was "One man and his dog, Spot, three jam butties and a bottle of pop, went to mow a meadow"

That was the local Guides...
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posted by [identity profile] darth-tigger.livejournal.com at 05:10pm on 20/09/2006
How about "one man and his dog, Spot, a bottle of pop, Old Mother Riley had a cow but didn't know how to milk it"?
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 05:32pm on 20/09/2006
We sang "one man and his dog, Spot, bottle of pop, Old Mother Riley had a fat cow but didn't know how to milk it"...
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posted by [identity profile] ceb.livejournal.com at 06:11pm on 20/09/2006
"one man and his dog, Spot, and a bottle of pop, Old Mother Riley and her cow, the kitche n sink and the girl next door"
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posted by [identity profile] voidampersand.livejournal.com at 05:07pm on 20/09/2006
Great googly moogly!
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 05:31pm on 20/09/2006
So "google" in the adjectival form has been around for a while (not that anyone's quite sure what it means...)
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