Barry Popik namecheck

[Michael Quinion]

Someone billed as Jennifer 8. Lee (is this a misprint, I wonder, or have
numbers become the new initials?) writes in the New York Times online
today about apples, apple trademarks and legal action arising therefrom.
She quotes Barry Popik and describes him as a "cultural etymologist". It's
a neat term that I may appropriate without credit ...

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/its-like-comparing-apples-to-
apples/?hp


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