Our Two Cents: The Weirdest Automotive Words - Hagerty Media
We asked the staff of Hagerty Media about weird automotive words, and we definitely received some interesting candidates to share!
The transformation of the word geek
pIn Liar’s Poker, his 1989 seminal account of trading, Michael Lewis has a chapter called “From Geek to Man.” Here’s what he says about “geeks”: “A geek is a circus performer who bites the heads off live chickens and snakes. Or so says the red American Heritage Dictionary.” When Lewis arrived at Salomon Brothers in […]/p
Check Your Spelling at the Command Line with Aspell — Open Source Musings
(Note: This post was first published at Opensource.com and appears here via a CC-BY-SA 4.0 International License.) Correct spelling does...
IEC 60050 - International Electrotechnical Vocabulary - Welcome
62. The Etymology of Insults
9. In Defense of 'Like'
'Like' is a wildly versatile, fascinating word and we're here with guest editor Serenity Carr to give it its due. Seriously. Like, there's nothing wrong with it. Later we'll tackle the story of 'mean', which was a perfectly nice word for centuries before it developed a bit of an attitude.Hosted by Emily Brewster, Neil Serven, Ammon Shea, and Peter Sokolowski.Produced in collaboration with New England Public Media.Transcript available here.