Odd. "Kerbal" existed in the english language a long long time ago.

[Whirligig Girl]

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Kerbal&year_start=1600&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=

According to this, in English language literature between 1720 and 1727, Kerbal was used in a rather high percentage of literature. The Term also seemed to arise back up in the age of modern computers (80s-present), but the info on Google Ngrams only reaches 2008, so although KSP wasn't created until 2010, the word "Kerbal" saw a rising during the time before that. What does "Kerbal" mean, anyway?

EDIT: after checking "kerbal" with lower case, no Ngrams were found. That means "Kerbal" is a proper noun, or maybe everyone just started sentences with "Kerbal"

The term first apeared in 1672, and popped up again for a slight bit in the 1820s, and is slowly rising.

Max smoothing of results:

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Kerbal&year_start=1600&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=50&share=

EDIT2: upon further investigation, American literature has never refered to Kerbals, so kerbal only apears in other English texts.

EDIT3:Upon Even further investigation, no english fiction refers to kerbals, so a Kerbal is a real proper noun that exists only in English and no other language.

Edited July 28, 2013 by GregroxMun

[Mazlem]

In 'The History of Timur-Bec', Kerbal is listed as a town between Ispahan and Abrecouh, in Iran. Ispahan is still there but I can't find anything on Abrecouh; maybe the spelling is different (for one, I noticed in the book they use a different character for 's'). After looking around I also found the city of Kerman, Iran. And there's another city of Kerman in California.

[Sir Nahme]

Someone needs to go there and located Jebediah before he can do too much harm