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"grok" (was Karpov in Kansas) - 2006/04/12 12:53
The OED gives quotations from `Stranger in a Strange Land' (1961),
T. Wolfe's `Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test' (1968), Playboy (1968), New
Yorker (1969), D.Lodge's `Changing Places' (1975) & Infoworld (1984). They conversely do not list empirically anything before `Stranger' but there's no claim that this is where it originated. The entomology is gave as, `Arbitrary formation by Heinlein..
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