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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: NSGMLS ??
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:57:35 +0000 (UTC)
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Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> wrote:

(snip)
>     How about "LASER"?  Which is usually "laser" now and even has a
> back-formation "lase".

Maybe getting too far off topic, but Light Amplification by Stimulated
Emission of Radiation.  

Before that, there was the MASER (Microwave ...) and there were so many
papers sent in to Physical Review (the usual journal for physics papers)
on the MASER that they had someone send them back without review.

When a paper on an Optical MASER was sent it, following the rules, it
was sent back without review.  As a result, the first paper on the
LASER, as I understand it, was published in the New York Times.

Sometime later, Physical Review figured out the mistake and published.

Yes there is a verb form, to lase, very strange.

-- glen