Authors: John Algeo
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-10-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
American Speech, the journal of the American Dialect Society has for fifty years included a regular collection of neologisms called "Among the New Words." A recent issue, for example, includes four quotations for "date rape," two for "designated driver," and six for "DNA fingerprinting," "intifada," and other current terms. Complete