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“Meails”: Email About ME

posted by | March 25, 2007 | 3 comments

Seth Godin’s post on Reed Elsevier’s spam has a gem of a neologism: “meail”, referring self-important marketing spam email which only cares about the sender, not the recipient.

No prior uses found with quick Google or Wikipedia searches. Nice metathesis, Seth!

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    3 Responses to ““Meails”: Email About ME”
    1. Seth Godin says:
      March 25, 2007 at 1:58 pm

      It was a typo!!

      yikes.

    2. Alan Rimm-Kaufman Alan Rimm-Kaufman says:
      March 25, 2007 at 3:17 pm

      Too funny!

    3. Ciaran says:
      March 26, 2007 at 8:32 am

      Seth you know you’ve really made it (although I’m pretty sure you knew it a long time ago) when people even think that your typos are words of wisdow….

      Can I just take ownership of the neologism teh - it refers to a time when a busy blogger forgets to spell-check their work…