Since I've no idea what it means, I'll assume it's regular (particularly if it's a newly-coined word). I guess the problem in this case is that it's unknown (therefore generally assumed regular; I read a really interesting book about language which had some good examples of this once but unfortunately I can't remember which book it was) but also superficially similar to an existing irregular word. If it actually has anything to do with grinding then I'd go for the second option, and if it's not actually an English word (or is part of a dialect, even) then it could be anything depending on where it's from.
Stephen Pinker's The Language Instinct includes a discussion of this sort of thing (and is a really interesting book); was that the one you were thinking of?
It's a computer program, used to check other programs for memory handling bugs. The name often gets used as a verb e.g. "my program crashes"/"Have you tried valgrinding it?"
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Date: 2004-04-08 06:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-04-08 06:27 am (UTC)Stephen Pinker's The Language Instinct includes a discussion of this sort of thing (and is a really interesting book); was that the one you were thinking of?
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Date: 2004-04-08 06:52 am (UTC)