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[jasper]

i'm doing a report on George Nissen, the one who invented the trampoline and when i looked him up on wiki this was one was the things it said. what does it mean? the sentence it was in was that he saw this word: "trampolin" in Spanish and:
He trademarked it in an anglicized form.
what does that mean?

[fiacre68]

According to Google it is the Spanish word for Diving Board..... odd.
Hope his helps and good luck on whatever you're doing!

[fiacre68]

He created the word trampoline from the word trampolin , changed it 'round abit and presto! Got trampoline.

[janyd]

I don't get this. Unless there is some hidden trick to this question, it quite simply means he took the word "trampolin" and made an English word - "trampoline" and trademarked it. In other words, he "Anglicized" it (made an English word from the Spanish word).