In the middle of reading a novel by Dickens, or watching a play of Shakespeare's, you are taken aback by a familiar word or phrase that just doesn't belong in that ancient setting, and you blurt out "Did he just say that?". Sometimes a word you think is new has been around for a long time; often the word had a different meaning now forgotten, or the meaning slowly changed over time. In other cases, the author has simply put together a string of words that accidentally have acquired a new meaning or status in modern times, so that it is as disconcerting as hearing your grandpa quoting rap to you.
Although I have had this experience many times, I have only recently decided to keep track of these strange creatures.
Google is the name of a search company, and now even a verb meaning the simple act of searching for something online. However, it may have had a prior existence:
"Odd about scepticism, you know, Simon. I've known a few sceptical philosophers and with the exception of Parlabane they have all been quite ordinary people in the normal dealings of life. They pay their debts, have mortgages, educate their kids, google over their grandchildren, try to scrape together a competence precisely like the rest of the middle class."Robertson Davies, "The Rebel Angels", 1982.
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