18 Jul
2018
18 Jul
'18
10:25 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 12:13:08PM -0400, William Cheswick wrote:
Marion Harris gave a talk at 1985 Portland (Fireworks
and Salmon)
Usenix about the unapologetic use of such verbs.
Grep uses the “gr” as in grasp, grope, grab, etc, similar to the
“sl” in slither, slider, sleek, etc. She gave a linguistic term
for such things, and I remember a word like “sythesim”, but that’s
not it.
ches
I think it's probably "phonestheme" as defined by Firth in "The
Tongues of Men & Speech."
khm