It's Fun to Know: About eBay

EBay started out as a Web consulting group named Echo Bay Technology Group. Echo Bay Mines Limited, a gold mining company, had already taken the domain name EchoBay.com, so founder Pierre Omidyar registered his second choice: eBay.com.

(Source: Wikipedia)
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Word to the Wise: Supplant

To "supplant" (suh-PLANT) - from the Latin for "to trip up/overthrow" - is to take the place of a rival, especially through intrigue or underhanded tactics.

Example (as used by Dennis J. Hutchinson in The Man Who Once Was Whizzer White): "Economic opportunities for a saddler and harness maker were beginning to decline... as railroads supplanted the stagecoach trade."

Michael Masterson
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