(May 20, 2013 at 3:46 am)Aractus Wrote: Another thing about the finale is that at the beginning we hear one of the Gallifreyans say "what kind of idiot would try and steal a faulty TARDIS" ... why can't Moffat get these little things right? It should be "what kind of idiot would try and steal a faulty Time Travel Capsule?" There is only ONE "TARDIS" and it gets its name from Susan.I'd have to take issue with that. From Wikipedia:
Quote:Susan Foreman, the Doctor's granddaughter, claimed to have coined the name TARDIS: "I made [it] up from the initials." The word TARDIS is used to describe other Time Lords' travel capsules as well. The Discontinuity Guide, written by Paul Cornell, Keith Topping, and Martin Day, suggests that "[she] was a precocious young Time Lady, and her name for travel capsules caught on."
So it's quite likely that either (a) Susan invented the word and it caught on prior to her leaving Gallifrey, or (b) since she made it up from the initials, other people also did the same, and she isn't the sole inventor of the word.
