A little argument about "surfing" happened at a computer forum a while back. A couple individuals, that I believe never seen the ocean, kept saying that "surfing" is a term copied by the bums that ride waves on the ocean from the internet "surfing" term. The answer is more logical than our topic at hand but it demonstrates that it depends on the "circles" some individuals have been most of their life and how easily it can slowly change the real meaning of some terms.

Another good term that has different meaning for many people is "morphing".