1. Finally, again as predicted, children coin new terms to fill gaps in their vocabularies. 2. They are Luddites well over a century before the term was coined. 3. Americans not only are familiar with road rage, they coined the term. 4. Although Jackson gets most of the credit for coining the term African-American, that distinction rightly belongs to people such as Ramona Edelin. 5. Apartheid -- integrated into the legal system in this country before the term was ever coined in South Africa -- saw to that. 6. BIRG stands for Bask In Reflected Glory, the term coined by psychologists trying to understand why ordinary folks can get so excited about sports. 7. A number of people take credit for coining the term extranet. 8. After all, management guru Michael Hammer is the man credited with coining the term and kicking off the reengineering movement. 9. Some officers say the term was coined because of the copper buttons that adorn the uniforms of the officers. 10. For starters, the term was coined as a joke by New York City psychiatrist Ivan Goldberg, who was astonished that people took him seriously. |