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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
If I would call it a liceause people would look at me as if I'm crazy... I actually had that happen on sunday already. I mentioned this thread at the breakfast table. And my husband, who has been reading electronically as long as I am, had no idea what I was talking about. He kept thinking he missed a word or something (and I did pronounce it the correct way even!). So, I'll just keep on calling it an electronic book, ebook reader, or just a book.
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We're trying to introduce it as a new word into the lexicon, so of course people won't know what it means at first! Start calling your device a liseuse and people will only have to ask what it means once. It's nonsensical to discard a brand new word because no one knows what you mean. "Email" didn't mean anything to me before I knew what the word referred to. Your husband did miss a word - because we just coined it here on MR!