Dr J R Stockton wrote:

> In comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets message <68b8d$47e2b1ce$ce
> f88ba3$23057@TEKSAVVY.COM>, Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:49:50, Chris F.A. Johnson
> <cfajohnson@gmail.com> posted:
>>
>> The term 'shebang' may or may not be derived from the bang in bang
>> paths.
>
> The word is most unlikely to have been derived from something that only
> came into existence about a century after Mark Twain used the word : see
> <http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/the-whole-shebang.html>.

And of course I never implied that there wasn't an existing word "shebang"
that was borrowed as a ref to the symbol pair, the latter symbol of which
is a bang.

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