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Bubble : origins ?
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What is th origins of the word bubble. Who invented it. When was it first used ?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Bubble:partly imitative; compare Dutch 'bubbel' or German dialect 'Bobbel' and partly an alteration of burble ( itself imitative of the sound )says the Oxford English Dictionary. It is noted in Middle English ( English as it was up to about 1470 ). If you mean 'bubble' its specialised meaning in crystallography and computing ( i.e. a small mobile domain of reverse magnetization in a crystalline material particularly one forming a unit of stored information in a computer memory; a 'magnetic bubble') then it's mid C20 but I've no idea who first used it for this.
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