Friday, May 13, 2011

New 'blog using Godaddy's Cool Quick Blog; Weblog etymology

Blogger was down yesterday and I noticed free 'blogging credits on my Godaddy.com account.  I'm using the free version (came with a domain) of their Quick Blogcast.  I like it and plan to get the paid version.  I used URL Forwarding with Masking to send www.FoodWaterGold.com to the 'blog, which is hosted on a subdomain of another domain.

Godaddy is very reliable and I like the new things they've been adding to their Control Panels.  Here's a link to their new 4G Blog Hosting page.

My new 'blog is at www.FoodWaterGold.com.  I don't know how many 'blogs I'll end up with.  Blogger is cool so of course I'm keeping it.

But I wonder how long I will continue to correctly punctuate the contraction of the word "Weblog", using the apostrophe.  Because now that I think of it, the compound word "Weblog" does not necessarily use correct syntax, either.  We have Ship's Logs and Maintenance Logs, not Ship'slogs and Maintenancelogs.

Furthermore, once someone has created a product name omitting the apostrophe, it's a name.  I know a lady called "Sherly".  I knew another one named "Geeta".  Had their parents not unintentionally evolved their versions of these name's spelling, these women would have spelled their names as "Shirley" and "Gita".

So I think I'll give in. This post will be the last time I use the apostrophe in what is now the word "Blog" or "blog".  But I am noting it here.  I may not be a Frenchman, and my country doesn't hold grande dictées.  But we're not completely unaware over here.

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