I never realized that. I always thought that people were trying to avoid spelling it out. Guess I don't go there enough! But I see people doing that with other store names, too, maybe it just got started with trying to get wal*mart's name correct and has accidentally become part of internet culture. JIm On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:38 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote: > At 09:24 PM 9/21/2009, Jim Felder wrote: >> >> Why can't people just say ebay instead of "e-place" and walmart >> instead of W**mart and other ridiculous cryptic euphemisms like that? >> >> Snipped from thread < as I have them on "that E-place" also.> > > Beats me. I've seen it a time or two, here and other places, never had a > clue why. Of course Wal*Mart is just a transcription of their logo, not the > same thing at all. > > Yours, > David > |
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