On the British comedy panel game show QI ( standing for Quite Interesting ), host Stephen Fry asked the question : What is meant by the expression " Hoover the talking seal ? Panelist Roger McGough answered, Well, it's either one of those wonderful Oz expressions for throwing up : Excuse me, I've got to go hoover the talking seal ; to which Fry replied : . . . or my wife came in just as I was hoovering the talking seal .
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Instead, Mr . Spangler sold his invention to a local businessman called William Hoover whose Hoover Suction Sweeper Company produced the first " Hoover " . The words hoover " Italic text " and hoovering " Italic text " become familiar all over the world . The point of this small tale is that, although you had never heard of Mr . Spangler before, you can very quickly understand a new word in your language ( a neologism "'Bold text "') and accept the use of different forms of thet new word.
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:: I count at least five people with edits I would describe as " major reverts "-[ https : / / en . wikipedia . org / w / index . php ? title = Wikipedia & diff = 621214733 & oldid = 621197008, [ https : / / en . wikipedia . org / w / index . php ? title = Wikipedia & diff = 619908229 & oldid = 619906690, Even disregarding that, I can see several unsourced claims ( eg : " They [ rules on non-English Wikipedia have since diverged to some extent ", " However, some vandalism takes much longer to repair ", " the number of references to Wikipedia in popular culture is such that the word is one of a select band of 21st-century nouns that are so familiar ( Google, Facebook, YouTube ) that they no longer need explanation and are on a par with such 20th-century words as hoovering or Coca-Cola " ), " Hardware operations and support " has an " outdated " tag, the paragraph describing h2g2 is unsourced, and there are several other tags in the text.
