Originally posted by Suzianne I got a chuckle from this...
From the website dictionary.com:
"Word Origin and History for Spam
spam
n.
proprietary name registered by Geo. A. Hormel & Co. in U.S., 1937; probably a conflation of spiced ham. Soon extended to other kinds of canned meat. In the sense of "Internet junk mail" it was coined by Usenet users after March 31, 1993, when Use ...[text shortened]... us" (beloved by many intellectual geeks) where a restaurant's menu items all devolve into spam."
Even when I was a meat eater I could never bring myself to eat spam.
Originally posted by HandyAndy It was known in the U.S. as association football, then abbreviated as "Assoc. Football" in newspaper listings, and eventually reduced to soc(cer).
I looked this up and you're exactly right. I had no idea that was the etymology of the word.
Originally posted by HandyAndy It was known in the U.S. as association football, then abbreviated as "Assoc. Football" in newspaper listings, and eventually reduced to soc(cer).