One of the rules for the New York Times Spelling Bee is as follows:<\/p>\n
\nOur word list does not include words that are offensive, obscure, hyphenated or proper nouns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So you know that if a word starts with a capital letter, it’s not going to be in the word list. This knocks out a lot of words.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, just for the hell of it, I tried “google”, since I saw that it had the requisite letters. Sure enough, it was accepted!<\/p>\n
Which means, I assume, that google — as opposed to Google — is now a word in the English language. Presumably it is the verb form of the word that is being accepted here: I googled, you are googling, they will have been going to google.<\/p>\n
I immediately thought of the Mafia. If you’re a “made man”, then you’re in the club, and your colleagues are less likely to whack you when you’re not looking.<\/p>\n
It seems that “google” has now joined the exalted club of “made words”. No wonder Google’s stock has been going up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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