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While googling, I learned that Milton Sirotta coined a word when he was 9 years old. Is that the youth record?
  

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[nq:1]While googling, I learned that Milton Sirotta coined a word when he was 9 years old. [/nq] Can't be: they do it all the time from before they can speak properly. Was Milton's unusual in that it gained general currency?

  • [nq:1]While googling, I learned that Milton Sirotta coined a word when he was 9 years old.
  • [/nq] Can't be: they do it all the time from before they can speak properly.
  • Was Milton's unusual in that it gained general currency?
  • Mike.
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[nq:1]While googling, I learned that Milton Sirotta coined a word when he was 9 years old. Is that the youth record?[/nq]
Can't be: they do it all the time from before they can speak properly. Was Milton's unusual in that it gained general currency?

Mike.
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[nq:2]While googling, I learned that Milton Sirotta coined a word when he was 9 years old. Is that the youth record?[/nq]
[nq:1]Can't be: they do it all the time from before they can speak properly. Was Milton's unusual in that it gained general currency?[/nq]
Speaking of general currency, I read that a cartwheel is slang for a silver dollar (I don't see it). Now a cartwheel is a handsprin
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[nq:2]Can't be: they do it all the time from before they can speak properly. Was Milton's unusual in that it gained general currency?[/nq]
[nq:1]Speaking of general currency, I read that a cartwheel is slang for a silver dollar (I don't see it).[/nq]
The silver dollar was a large coin, and the wheel of a cart was a large wheel. Both large, both round.
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Jim Ward filted:
[nq:1]While googling, I learned that Milton Sirotta coined a word when he was 9 years old. Is that the youth record?[/nq]
I was three when I coined "Gurp" and told my parents it was the name of one of our new kittens..r
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[nq:1]While googling, I learned that Milton Sirotta coined a word when he was 9 years old. Is that the youth record?[/nq]
How old was the kid who coined well, "googol," actually.
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[nq:1]Jim Ward filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]While googling, I learned that Milton Sirotta coined a word when he was 9 years old. Is that the youth record?[/nq]
[nq:1]I was three when I coined "Gurp" and told my parents it was the name of one of our new kittens..r[/nq]
I was four when I coined "crouch", and was later disappointed to find that someone had beaten me to it.
When our youngest son
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[nq:2]While googling, I learned that Milton Sirotta coined a word when he was 9 years old. Is that the youth record?[/nq]
[nq:1]How old was the kid who coined well, "googol," actually.[/nq]
According to googolplex.com, it was Edward Kasner's nine-year-old nephew. It appears we have a tie, so far.

dg (domain=ccwebster)
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[nq:2]How old was the kid who coined well, "googol," actually.[/nq]
[nq:1]According to googolplex.com, it was Edward Kasner's nine-year-old nephew. It appears we have a tie, so far.[/nq]
Whoosh!
No, we don't have a tie.

Mark Brader, Toronto "Logic is logic. That's all I say." (Email Removed) Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[nq:2]According to googolplex.com, it was Edward Kasner's nine-year-old nephew. It appears we have a tie, so far.[/nq]
[nq:1]Whoosh! No, we don't have a tie.[/nq]
Must be dense tonight but 'fraid I don't get the whoosh.
dg (domain=ccwebster)
PS - It wasn't googolplex.com, sorry, "The Googolplex Page".
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[nq:2]Whoosh! No, we don't have a tie.[/nq]
[nq:1]Must be dense tonight but 'fraid I don't get the whoosh.[/nq]
Try a bit of googling.

Mark Brader, Toronto "Don't be evil."
(Email Removed) corporate policy, Google Inc.

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