GAMES, NAMES AND MARVELS

摘要

IT IS A truism, of course, but time does fly! It feels like only yesterday that I asked you to share techno-names you have invented or may have come across; and only the day before yesterday that E&T invited readers to fill in the tenth, empty square on our OneToTen of England's Top Engineering Monuments, in which we reproduced the list of nine engineering marvels recently suggested by Visit England. Well, it could be the extremely cold spring in the UK that made the first four months of 2013 feel like an extended Christmas period. Yet the fact remains: both of the above mini-challenges were issued three months ago, so the time has come to sum them up and announce the winners. The response to my techno-names 'After All' was good, but not overwhelming. Creating new techno-names is not easy and coming across the already existing ones outside the former USSR is even harder. Therefore I decided not to announce overall winners, but will be pleased to add to my ever-growing collection two interesting, if somewhat tongue-breaking, suggestions from Peter Lewis: Ximbter-a boy's name made from 'Ximbter is More Beautiful Than Earth Rise' pulling in the "geek's 'X' with the self-reference and the wonderful photograph taken by William Anders from Apollo 8 in 1968".