Spunk Press - the name

Spunk, in Swedish:: The word "spunk" is taken from the books about Pippi Longstocking by the Swedish children's writer Astrid Lindgren.
The story goes like this. Pippi has just invented a new word, "spunk", but doesn't know what it means just yet so she goes out into the small town she lives in to find out by asking the shopkeepers if they have a spunk. Heh. So a spunk can be anything, anything we like.
Spunk, in American and English:: "spunk, n. informal. courage or spirit - spunky, adj." (Collins Dictionary).
Spunk, in Australian:: "Spunk" means, in Australian english, "an attractive person", acording to the Macquarie Dictionary. It is non-gender specific.

So, a spunk is nondescript, energetic, courageous and attractive. 'Spunk' is also an English colloquialism referring to human semen, but any connection between this and Spunk Press is purely coincidental (although it was suggested by someone that we really should be "proudly claiming to provide seminal information":-).

Version 1.1, 01-May-96