Originally Posted By: AnnaStrophic
I don't know that there is a word for this phenomenon unless you count the one coined by the folks at wordorigins.

“Diegogarcity”: A term used on this board to denote the appearance of a term in multiple sources shortly after you have looked it up in the dictionary.


from the original wordorigins discussion also comes "plate o' shrimp phenomenon", an allusion to "Repo Man".

-joe (serendipity) friday