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Re:The lost letters of the English alphabet by aclimatt on Monday January 16, 2017 @01:05PM (#13411699)
I really wanted to believe that was Etsy's etymology, but alas it is not:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/04/22/website.name.origins.mf...

(Not sure if that's what you were implying, clever idea though.)

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Re:The lost letters of the English alphabet by scholia on Monday January 16, 2017 @05:13PM (#13413495)
I wish that page had mentioned that Bing is derived from "Bing is not Google" ... even if it isn't true ;-)
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Re:The lost letters of the English alphabet by adzm on Monday January 16, 2017 @02:58PM (#13412505)
Thanks for finding an actual source on this!
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