[HPforGrownups]: the Stouffer stuff/reserving words

[rainy_lilac at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 13033

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Monika Zaboklicka" 
<monika.zaboklicka at c...> wrote:
> 
> > --- In HPforGrownups at y..., rainy_lilac at y... wrote:
> > My  question is: Hasn't anyone noticed that Rowling isn't using 
"muggles"
> > as a trademark? She is using it as a WORD, like turnip or green. I
> > have never heard of anyone reserving a word for their exclusive 
use.
> 
> The only example I've heard of is the word "hobbit". If you want to 
write
> about hobbits, you have to use one of the synonims - "Perian", for 
instance.
> 
> But if Mrs. Stouffer seriously thinks that her works are matching 
the
> artistic level of Tolkien's, IMHO lawyers are not the kind of 
specialists
> she needs most.

Hobbit though is infact an invented word-- it did not exist before 
Tolkien.

Muggle is in the OED and has a long history. It is a real word, not 
invented by either author.

So.... why should Rowling use a word that is in the dictionary?