Kermit

English thumb|A cat playing with a toy Kermit the Frog. Etymology Variant of English and en gv Kermode, cognate with Irish ga Mac Diarmata and Scots Gaelic gd McDiarmid son of Dermot. Popularized in the US by the naming of Kermit Roosevelt (after a Manx ancestor). The computing sense is named after the Sesame Street character, but later provided with a backronym ("KL10 Error-Free Reciprocal Microprocessor Interchange over TTY"). Pronunciation en /ˈkɜːmɪt/ RP en /ˈkɝmɪt/ GenAm en ɜː(ɹ)mɪt 2 en Ker mit Proper noun en chiefly US en Manx male. The puppet Kermit the Frog, host of The Muppet Show and a frequent character in Sesame Street, originally performed by creator Jim Henson. en computing An asynchronous file transfer protocol, often used for communication between different types of minicomputer or mainframe. en city/county seat co/Winkler County s/Texas, named after Kermit Roosevelt. en town co/Mingo County s/West Virginia, named after Kermit Roosevelt. Derived terms en Kermit the Frog Further reading Kermit the Frog Kermit (protocol) en terms derived from fiction eponyms en Fictional characters Muppets