Re: Looking for "kish graphite"

From: David Deuchar (skfjhbvlsdjhb_at_ntl.com)
Date: 11/14/04 

Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 19:49:09 GMT

"Mark Thorson" <nospam@sonic.net> wrote in message
news:4197B247.5FA3C3C9@sonic.net...
> David Deuchar wrote:
>
>> It appears there are two related things called Kish graphite.
>>
>> This is what I call kish graphite:-
>
> I'm curious about the etymology of "kish".
> It sounds like some old Anglo-Saxon word.
>
> We don't have many of those in the computer
> business. Most of our older terms such as
> "file", "record", "field", etc. are inherited from
> the punched card business. And most of the
> people working in computers today are
> completely unaware of this history.
>
> Every now and then I stumble across older
> words in books on ceramics and metals like
> "cullet", "grog", "smalts", "lemel", etc.
>
>
>
OED :- origin uncertain, first noted 1800-1830. Not much help.