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For some reason I read that as if there was a page on Google called Larry. Guess plenty of people made the same mistake with Page Rank though, so I don't feel too bad!

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Ya know, I never even considered that PageRank was named after Larry.

It wasn't.

Yes it was: http://web.archive.org/web/20090424093934/http://www.google....

Except that it was, according to Google: "The first and most well known is PageRank, named for Larry Page (Google’s co-founder and CEO)." http://www.google.com/competition/howgooglesearchworks.html

The term "Web Page" was also coined in his honor.

He must have been aware of the convenient double meaning.

We all know that if he had been born Larry Bartowski, it would not have been called BartowskiRank.

Revisionist history. You don't want to know where they got the first name for it from...

This is why proper grammar is important. With the correct capitalization of proper nouns, there is little room for ambiguity. Of course, that doesn't help in speech...

Well, regular English words can also be used in or as proper nouns, like Pagerank (or if the title of a website at Google was "Google's Larry Page").

Everyday I park at work by a sign saying: security camera's in operation. The daily reminder is good for me.

That parses. It just implies there's only one security camera. And you and the sign painter already know of and speak informally about it. And it's operating RIGHT NOW.

Hadn't thought of it like that. There aren't any cameras unfortunately. The spate of break ins was dealt with by installing a sign. A very proactive sign. Wonder what they will do to its punctuation if 2 cameras get installed...

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