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- From: tweaver@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Tim Weaver)
- Subject: Re: Etymology
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.131557.17292@hobbes.kzoo.edu>
- Keywords: !, bang
- Organization: Kalamazoo College
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 13:15:57 GMT
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- John Rauser writes:
- >It does not however give the etymology of the word "bang", which is
- >often used to mean the exclamation point symbol "!".
- >
- >Does anybody out there know who coined this term and for what reason
- >they did so?
- >
- Bang! Bang! Bang!bang!bang! BANG!!!
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- BBB AA N N GGGG !!
- B B A A NN N G G !!
- BBB AAAA N N N G !!
- B B A A N NN G GGG
- BBB A A N N GGGG !!
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- Of course they could have called it POW! or BAM! or ZOWIE!
- (alright, maybe not zowie) :)
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