[Zope] Re: Who was Zope?

[Martijn Pieters]

From: LEE, Kwan Soo [mailto:kslee@plaza1.snu.ac.kr]
> 
> Just found from "The Project Gutenberg Etext of The 1913 
> Webster Unabridged Dictionary
> Version 0.50  Letters X, Y, Z and The "New Words" supplement" 
> at ftp://ftp.datacanyon.com/pub/gutenberg/etext96/pgw050xz.txt:
> 
> <p><hw>Zope</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [G.] <i>(Zo&ouml;l.)</i>
> <def>A European fresh-water bream (<i>Abramis ballerus</i>).</def></p>
> 
> So Zope appears to be a fish made from a serpent, though Jim 
> Fulton once said that Zope was meaningless, iirc.
> 
> Reminds me of "Lego" chosen for meaninglessness later found 
> to be meaningfull in Latin.

About a year back, when doing similar research into the name, I also
found that 'Zope' is originally am Inca name, and now a common surname
in India. And the Central American King Buzzard is locally known as
'Rey Zope' (King Zope? I knew it!). The relevant thread:

  http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-April/thread.html#4601

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