We’ve all been ‘pinged’ at one time or another. But the term now has so many uses that it constitutes a 'pingdemic.' Here's a look at the origin of the word.
, one user moaned, “I’m starting to loathe the word ‘ping,’” while another observed, “We now live in the United Pingdom.”
While the “pingdemic” may be a novel phenomenon for the pandemic era, the word “ping” goes back nearly two centuries, first emerging as onomatopoeia for a short, high-pitched metallic sound, like bullets ricocheting.
The 20th century brought new uses of “ping” as an interjection, noun and verb. With the advent of the internal combustion engine, new terms were devised to describe the metallic rattling noise created by faulty combustion: In the United Kingdom, the sound was called “pinking,” while in the United States and Australia, “pinging” was preferred. A 1923
for motor oil in the Detroit Free Press, for instance, referred to “the knocking or ‘pinging’ often experienced with an overheated or badly carbonized engine.”
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