Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!gam From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (Gordon A. Moffett) Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.cooks Subject: Zap! Message-ID: <817@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Dec-84 00:08:16 EST Article-I.D.: amdahl.817 Posted: Sun Dec 30 00:08:16 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 31-Dec-84 00:21:11 EST Distribution: net Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 14 Xref: sun net.nlang:1994 net.cooks:2626 The use of "zap" to mean the verb "microwave" I like to think of as my invention, but in fact it seems to have sprung up independently in many places. It seems such a reasonable usage for a word which originally came from Flash Gordon comics, to mean to bombard with (microwave) radiation. But formalists are still using the verb "microwave", though I think it sounds cumbersome. Then again, "any noun can be verbed." Any other ways to describe cooking with microwaves? -- Gordon A. Moffett ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam 37 22'50" N / 121 59'12" W [ This is just me talking. ]