Tag: language

  • Fraudster?

    Update: looks like it’s been in use since 1975 – and the first use is from the revered Financial Times! When did we all adopt the Daily Mail-ism ‘fraudster’ and…

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  • Touring Machine

    Via Matt, I learn that Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, Dutch computer science pioneer, recently deceased, achieved in his lifetime two citations in the OED – for first use of the words…

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