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Origin of Phrases - X
Xerox
The Haloid Company originally called its copiers "elector-photography" machines. In the 1940s, they hired a Greek scholar at Ohio State University to think up a new name. He came up with "Xenography," after the Greek words dry and writing, and called the copier itself a Xerox machine.
