> No, I'm afraid you're wrong. Dawkins definitely coined the word 'meme'.= =20 > He chose it because a) it sounded like gene and b) because of the french= =20 > word m=EAme (circumflexes munged for some no doubt) meaning same there are also semes and phonemes and lexemes so meme i would say is more of a contraction of meaning-eme. soz z