Words at Play : Top 10 Mashup Words

#5: Blog

Although now fully entrenched in our culture, this word – combining the b from Web and the word log, meaning a journal – first appeared in print only in 1999.

It's unclear who first coined the term, but it was popularized by "Blogger," the service that introduced blogging to a large audience.

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