Top Items About Coinages
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Trivia | Origin of the word Nerd | "And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo, and bring back an It-Kutch, a Preep, and a Proo, a Nerkle, a Nerd, and a... | root | 147 | |
| Anecdotes | Amory Lovins & the Negawatt | While perusing a report put out by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, Lovins [Rocky Mountain Institute founder... | root | 58 | |
| Anecdotes | Anecdote about John Daly, Metaphors and Analogies | `60 Minutes` executive producer Don Hewitt on coining the term `anchor` during the 1952 national conventions in Chicago:... | Anonymous | 46 | |
| Anecdotes | Lotka Curve | In 2003, the sociologist Charles Murray - famed for his controversial contention (outlined in The Bell Curve,... | Anonymous | 33 | |
| Anecdotes | XML's roots | XML can trace its roots all the way back to 1969. Charles F. Goldfarb, previously a practicing attorney, accepted a... | root | 33 | |
| Anecdotes | Okay? | "Russian foreign minister Molotov coined a word during a session with British and American representatives. Observing the... | Anonymous | 21 | |
| Anecdotes | Churchill Line | Winston Churchill, a prolific writer, once coined a term to describe inefficiently-run Socialist nations in which people... | Anonymous | 16 |
