blog

blog · noun, verb¹

1. Proto-Indo-European*weyh₁-?
2. Proto-Indo-European*wiHrós
3. Proto-Germanic*weraz
4. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
5. Proto-Indo-European*h₂életi
6. Proto-Germanic*alaną
7. Proto-Germanic*aldiz
8. Proto-Germanic*weraldiz
9. Proto-West Germanic*weraldi
10. Old Englishweorold
11. Middle Englishworld
12. Englishworld
13. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
14. Proto-Indo-European*dwi-
15. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
16. Proto-Indo-European*h₁weydʰh₁-
17. Proto-Indo-European*h₁weydʰh₁ós
18. Proto-Germanic*wīdaz
19. Old Englishwīd
20. Englishwide
21. Englishworldwide
22. Proto-Indo-European*webʰ-
23. Proto-Germanic*webaną
24. Proto-Germanic*wabją
25. Old Englishwebb
26. Middle Englishweb
27. Englishweb
28. EnglishWorld Wide Webellip.
29. EnglishWeb
30. Proto-Indo-European*legʰ-
31. Proto-Indo-European*légʰyeti
32. Proto-Germanic*ligjaną
33. Old Norseliggjader.?
34. Middle Englishlogge
35. Englishlog
36. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂ǵosder.?
37. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂g-der.?
38. Proto-Germanic*bōks
39. Proto-West Germanic*bōk
40. Old Englishbōc
41. Middle Englishbok
42. Englishbook
43. Englishlogbook
44. Englishlog
45. Englishweblog
46. English todayblog

Rebracketing of weblog, as if it means we blog. The Oxford English Dictionary says the shortened word was coined 23 May 1999 and references the "Jargon Watch" article in an issue of an online magazine which attributes the shortening to Peter Merholz. The form blog is now so much more common than weblog that some misspell the latter as webblog, as if from web + blog.

blog · verb²

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Blog · noun³

Coined by the Liverpool Science Fiction Society in 1955 at the Cytricon convention held in the George Hotel, Kettering, Northamptonshire. It was used as the fake sponsor of an audio play and fake advertisements were placed around the hotel; an actual drink was later served at the hotel bar after customers asked for it.