August 11, 2002

The B Word

Christian Crumlish

How ugly the word blog sounds, and despite that there's no denying it's more catchy, somehow more fun to say than weblog. Part of that may be fatigue around the word web along with the pleasure of using a clever neologism, something a little more playful than unconscious language evolution.

But hey, it could have been worse. Could have been bloog.

Posted by xian at August 11, 2002 3:16 PM
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