8.04 to 10.04 dist upgrade

[Mike McMullin]

On September 2, 2010 12:05:39 pm Michael Pavling wrote:
> On 2 September 2010 16:58, Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >> Hmmmm...so you "goggled" and not "googled"? :-)
> > 
> >        Which brings up a peeve of mine. I do not agree with "Google"
> > being a verb. It's a name, a pronoun. I believe it should be "search
> > using Google" or somesuch variant.
> 
> pronoun != "proper noun"
> 
> I take it you wouldn't condone someone hoovering their carpets either? :-/
> 
> Language (particularly English) evolves... whether we agree with it or not.

  Indeed, for years photocopying was simply referred to as Xeroxing, and the 
result a Xerox Copy, people understood what it meant.