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Originally Posted by danbloom
I told this last month to the man in SF who created the word KINDLE for AMAZON, Mr Michael Cronan, and he told me in an email that when he coined the word KINDLE for the reading device, he and his wife acutally HOPED the word would be turned into a verb, and their very first press release a year ago or so, used the word as a verb, too, before anyone else did. He told me he is pleased to see "kindling" used a verb for reading on a Kindle. The man himself!
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I hope Amazon is likewise happy. I get intensely irritated when companies with large market shares get upset over their trademarks getting verbified. HELLO?? Make fewer sales, people won't do it then...
"You can verbify anything if you just word it"
