Fulimation: specialists demand return of 'stolen meanings.'(On Language)(Column)
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Professionals from science and mathematics express their anger over the expropriation of terminology from their fields of study, and subsequent misuse by the general public.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
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Bialy: are we headed into a pletzl's depression?
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The name of a character from the Mel Brooks play "The Producers" has contributed the word "bialy" to the language, the origins and usages of which are considered.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
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Investigating the investment of a city
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The origins and development of the word "investment", in its military sense of strategically surrounding, but not entering or conquering, a city, is discussed.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
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