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The article is very slightly misleading on the nature of the coining. It was not a forging of a new term from some kind of rapturous regard, but a sarcastic re
by causi 5y ago
The article is very slightly misleading on the nature of the coining. It was not a forging of a new term from some kind of rapturous regard, but a sarcastic remark on behalf of Mr. Whewell. It was only years later that he saw the real value in the word and began promoting it seriously.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00033796200202722 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0003379620020272...
- HPsquared 5y agoMany such cases: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reappropriation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reappropriation
- jterrys 5y agoInterestingly, there was a Hacker News discussion on this article when it first came out, debating the claims made by the paper you cited. TL;DR: It wasn't sarcastic. Whewel was an admirer of Somerville. The paper made some liberal attributions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24863419 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24863419