Folk etymology, was Re: Python list vs google group

[Jim Lee]

On 06/18/2018 04:09 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> 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.)
>
FWIW, we used to call them barrier diodes, or sometimes hot carrier 
diodes, until the name "Schottky" became commonplace in, what, the mid 
80s or so?

-Jim