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From a post I wrote on Saturday, but didn’t get around to posting until now:

I’m on the ferry coming back from Victoria. I’m sitting in one of those little study carrels, listening to music off my laptop and reading Wired. Hence, multiple items from the magazine.

I just read about ‘mountweazel’ in the Jargon Watch section. It refers to:

noun. Fake words or names invented by a reference-book publisher to detect plagiarism of its electronic databases. the term honors Lillian Virginia Mountweazel, who was fabricated for the New Columbia Encyclopedia 30 years ago.

I was reminded of other words based on proper names. Spoonerism, for one. Douchebag, for another.

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