Peter Otten wrote:
"folk etymology" would be the retrofitting of the exotic "Schottky" into two familiar words "shot" and "key". Sometimes the writer assumes that these words are somehow related to the labeled object.
Well, there is a thing called "shot noise", and you can probaby get it from a Shottky diode under some circumstances, but Shottky is definitely someone's name. (Walter H. Shottky, to be specific.) -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
