{"id":128,"date":"2007-09-02T17:29:44","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T23:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technologists.com\/notes\/2007\/09\/02\/derivation-of-karl-z-wog-thanks-to-mit\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T18:17:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T23:17:36","slug":"derivation-of-karl-z-wog-thanks-to-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/2007\/09\/02\/derivation-of-karl-z-wog-thanks-to-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Derivation of &quot;Karl Z. 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I had a rubber address stamp that read &#8220;Charles H. Sauer W0HHG&#8221;, and used the stamp routinely. When I used it to stamp my return address on an admissions application to M.I.T., the response was addressed to &#8220;Charles H. S. Wohhg&#8221;. (I was admitted, but decided to go to Carleton College, instead.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This greatly amused me and my high school friends in the &#8220;briefcase gang&#8221;. They started calling me &#8220;Wohhg&#8221;, pronounced &#8220;Wog&#8221;. One\u00a0gave me the moniker &#8220;Carlywog&#8221;. That also evolved to my most common usage, Karl E. Wohhg, and corresponding initials K.E.W.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, the credits in <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20211206234407\/http:\/\/jackotis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Moore<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I4VochfpWII\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sandscript<\/a>\u00a0listed &#8220;sound tech by Dr. Karl Z. 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