The minute he heard someone use “I googled him” in a sentence, Robert Beard, president of Lexiteria, knew the word was likely to be a keeper. “It’s a very good sign,” he told TechNewsWorld, “when a word assumes its own characteristics. When it expands or contracts in meaning, for instance, it has a good chance of staying in our vocabulary.” The ultimate — and official — indication that a word has reached that level of acceptance, of course, is its inclusion in a respected dictionary. That has just happened with “google.”
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It’s Official: ‘To Google’ Is Grammatically Correct
Posted by: Erika Morphy July 7, 2006 01:59 PMThe minute he heard someone use “I googled him” in a sentence, Robert Beard, president of Lexiteria, knew the word was likely to be a keeper. “It’s a very good sign,” he told TechNewsWorld, “when a word assumes its own characteristics. When it expands or contracts in meaning, for instance, it has a good chance of staying in our vocabulary.” The ultimate — and official — indication that a word has reached that level of acceptance, of course, is its inclusion in a respected dictionary. That has just happened with “google.”