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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 22:44:09 -0800
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Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Joe Shea <joeshea@NETCOM.COM>
Subject: Re: CM>Re:Zzyzx
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I don't know if the LA Times piece would still be available, but they did an extensive one on the origins of the name, since it's puzzled everyone. It was named by a prospector, I recall, but nothing else is certain. Possibly, it was his name. The word in Wizard of Oz sounds a lot like it was borrowed from a real word, "syzygy," that described three astronomical bodies in a straight line, as the sun, moon and earth during a lunar eclipse.
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Joe Shea
Editor-in-Chief
The American Reporter
joeshea@netcom.com
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On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, keith reid-green wrote:
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>Don Senzig said: "I have not read this myself but have been told that xyzzy is a magic word in one of L. Frank Baum's "Wizard of Oz" stories."
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>It's been over 30 years since I read the "Wizard of Oz" to my son, but the way I remember it from the movie, the Wicked Witch of the West said something like "Zizzy, zuzzy, zik," whatever the hell that means. It may be different in the book(s).
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>Keith
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Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Joe Shea <joeshea@NETCOM.COM>
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
I don't know if the LA Times piece would still be available, but they did an extensive one on the origins of the name, since it's puzzled everyone. It was named by a prospector, I recall, but nothing else is certain. Possibly, it was his name. The word in Wizard of Oz sounds a lot like it was borrowed from a real word, "syzygy," that described three astronomical bodies in a straight line, as the sun, moon and earth during a lunar eclipse.
Best,
Joe Shea
Editor-in-Chief
The American Reporter
joeshea@netcom.com
http://www.newshare.com:9999
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, keith reid-green wrote:
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>Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
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>Don Senzig said: "I have not read this myself but have been told that xyzzy is a magic word in one of L. Frank Baum's "Wizard of Oz" stories."
>
>It's been over 30 years since I read the "Wizard of Oz" to my son, but the way I remember it from the movie, the Wicked Witch of the West said something like "Zizzy, zuzzy, zik," whatever the hell that means. It may be different in the book(s).
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>Keith
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