On Friday, March 15, 2002, at 01:25 PM, David Starner wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 05:33:30AM +0900, Dan Kogai wrote:
>> And the whole discussion of Tengwar sounds to
>> me like Webster, Oxford, or American Heritage should add "kwijibo" into
>> their vocabulary because Bart Simpson has used (I am relieved to find
>> there is no "Unidict" !)
>
> Rather more like they should add "positronic" because Isaac Asimov used
> it.
>
>
It's in the OED. Asimov gets credit for both that and robotics.
But that's only because other people picked up the word and ran with it.
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