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EnglishVocabulary: Meaning, Synonyms & Antonyms
Of which of the phrases below is the term 'blog' an abbreviation?
- a.web log
- b.web blog
- c.web blogger
- d.web blogging
Answer: (A) web log
"Blog" is a clipped form of "weblog" (web + log), an online journal whose entries appear in reverse chronological order. The word "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger in 1997, and Peter Merholz shortened it to "blog" in 1999. The other three options put the cart before the horse: "blogger" and "blogging" were formed later from "blog", and "web blog" is simply a redundancy. Similar tech coinages worth remembering: e-mail (electronic mail), modem (modulator-demodulator), pixel (picture element) and bit (binary digit).