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From: pjk@hou2a.UUCP (P.KEMP)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: Dalek naming
Message-ID: <607@hou2a.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 10:02:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 27 10:02:00 1985
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Keywords: anarchy,rebellion,overthrow,terror


>  From: gts@wjh12.UUCP (G. T. Samson)
>  Subject: Re: Dalek naming
>  
>  (And now, in the real world...)
>  In the hardcover "Doctor Who: A Celebration"  Terry Nation is quoted as
>  saying that he got the name from an encyclopedia volume going from
>  DAL to LEK.  Now, what encyclopedia puts D-L in one volume?  (The "Dal-Ek"
>  theory works better, but, hey, that's not what he's quoted as saying...)

Actually, if you read that section of "A Celebration" again,
I believe it states that the name "Dalek" just came to him
at the typewriter one day, and that he made up the story
of the encyclopedia to satisfy the press.  He also said
he knows of no encyclopedia that has such a volume!

Also, Dalek is an *anagram* of Kaled, not an acronym.

-- 
			Paul Kemp
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       The above statements are those of the author only,
          and are not those of AT&T Bell Laboratories.