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Old 10-28-2009, 11:10 AM   #66
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Originally Posted by tbaroghel View Post
As a French (and mostly French speaking guy), I don't get the thing about the nook word. It sounds good to my ear, short and similar to book; Still, I would have proposed 'Biblon', the ancient Greek word for book, as something more universal, should B&N have a global reach in mind. An alternative would be latin LIBRIS, or even Egyptian PAPYRUS.

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Perhaps its an American thing. The word has been bastardized to mean something entirely different. "Getting a little nookie" is simply another way of saying......well, you know.
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