Folk etymology, was Re: Python list vs google group

[Gregory Ewing]

Peter Otten wrote:
> "folk etymology" would be the retrofitting of the exotic "Schottky" into two 
> familiar words "shot" and "key". Sometimes the writer assumes that these 
> words are somehow related to the labeled object.

Well, there is a thing called "shot noise", and you can probaby
get it from a Shottky diode under some circumstances, but
Shottky is definitely someone's name. (Walter H. Shottky, to
be specific.)

-- 
Greg