The Surprising History Behind the Word 'Pokémon'Pokemon GO game on a smartphone, in Berlin, on July 14, 2016.Thomas Trutschel—Getty Images If a bewildered Boomer turned to an online dictionary these last few weeks, hoping to make some sense out of all this Pokémon business in the news, they likely would have been greeted with a correction. Did you mean pikeman, a soldier armed with a pike? Or perhaps the shell membrane, putamen? Maybe pygmaean,
