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Recently, I was editing an article and ran across the word kindle.
My cursor almost instinctively flew up to fix the obvious error; the word
wasn’t misspelled, but everyone knows Kindle should be capitalized,
right? Before I made the edit, I caught myself. For once, the word wasn’t
referring to the wildly popular e-reader. It just meant “to light or set on
fire” -- what kindle used to mean just about every time it was used,
before Amazon decided to break into the e-book business in 2007. Continue reading...
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