Coinages (part four)(LONG!)

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    More of a continuing series checking "coined the word/phrase/expression"
on the Dow Jones publications database.  The coinage assertions may or may
not be correct.

12-19-99, SPOKESMAN REVIEW, pg. F1--Back then (Vicki--ed.) Robin coined the
word "FIer" for financially independent, a status she achieved by cutting
corners and patiently building up enough savings to live off the interest.

12-16-99, BUSINESSWORLD (Philippines), pg. 4--Marcelo H. del Pilar coined the
word "frailocracy" to refer to the rule of the Spanish frailes who
participated in colonization by the Spanish crown.  Now comes a new term at
the advent of globalization, "TNC-ocracy" or the global rule of the
multinationals.

11-23-99, BUSINESSWORLD (Philippines), pg. 20--In 1972, Lolita Hizon, then a
Pampanga-based housewife, helped a neighbor process her unsold dried and
salted meat to prevent it from spoiling.  But Ms. Hizon modified the treating
process of the five-kilo meat product, used sugar instead of salt to preserve
the meat, and branded her finished product "tocino," a Spanish word that
means sweet-tasting meat. (...) Take the case of Ms. Hizon, did you know that
she coined the word tocino?

11-18-99, ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL, pg. A1--There's a newly coined word for the
threat: agroterrorism.

10-23-99, YOMIURI SHIMBUN/DAILY YOMIURI--He (Seiko Ito--ed.) even coined the
word "verander" for the Japanese counterpart of a British-style gardener.  A
verander is a person who lives in an urban apartment and enjoys "gardening"
in the veranda attached to his or her home.

10-16-99, THE ECONOMIST, pg. 19--A susequent (Economist--ed.) editor, in the
1950s, coined the word numeracy, to describe a quality he valued.

10-1-99, AFX NEWS--Nissan powertrain project director Kazuhiko Sugano said
the company has coined the word "extroid" for the technology.

10-1-99, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING-CIME, pg. 124--But for chasing dolphins what
you really need is to fly through the water, and "fly is the right word,"
(Graham--ed.) Hawkes insisted.  He coined the word "hydrobatic"--as in
acrobatic, but in the water--to describe the maneuverability of the craft.

9-30-99, NEW YORK POST, pg. 51--He (Charles Saatchi--ed.) started a beautiful
gallery.  He coined the word neurotic realism.

9-6-99, STAR-LEDGER (Newark, NJ), pg.15--"Jobsolete" is a newly coined word
describing the fate of many workers who can't find full-time employment even
in the feel-good economy.

9-3-99, PATRIOT LEDGER (Quincy, Mass.), pg.7--For about 30 years, the shift
pattern for an automatic transmission hasn't varied much from Park, Reverse,
Neutral, Drive, and Low, a PRNDL pattern from which Detroit has coined a
word: Prindle.

9-1-99, COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL, pg. 4--Fear of "electro-smog"--A
Swiss-coined word for pollution from electro-magnetic fields--has slowed the
expansion of mobile networks in Switzerland.

9-1-99, COMPUTER GAMING WORLD from ZDWIRE--I (Johnny Wilson--ed.) even coined
a word for such communities.  I called them "cyburbs."

8-28-99, TIMES OF INDIA--Before that, in the '80s, the concept of "virtual
celebrities" took off when Jeff Kleiser, a special-effects guy, coined the
word synthespians to describe the concept of virtual actors.

8-6-99, DAILY MAIL, pg. 54--But look up red-top in this new dictionary
(Encarta World English Dictionary--ed.) and it offers provenance, from The
Guardian, only as recently as November 1998--nearly 20 years after I (Keith
Waterhouse--ed.) coined the word.

8-1-99, ADVANCED IMAGING, pg. 50--Kodak is presenting this as
"bi-chromodal"--a newly-coined word to denote color on the front with
black-and-white on the back.

7-25-99, HOUSTON CHRONICLE,pg.1--And too many people thought "North Texas"
meant Amarillo.  So advertising agent Harve Chapman coined the word
("metroplex"--ed.) from "metropolitan" and "complex," and it took hold, even
though it's still not listed in Webster's New World Dictionary.

7-16-99, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, pg. B5--Stan Durwood, movie theater
entrepreneur credited with inventing the multiplex theaters that now dot
every suburban mall, has died. (...) Both screens played the same movie, "The
Great Escape," starring Steve McQueen and James Garner.  But the idea was
born and, AMC said, Mr. Durwood coined "multiplex" at that time, too. Mr.
Durwood's company built a four-plex in 1966.  In 1969 came a six-plex.  Now,
they range up to 30 screens, and the biggest ones are known as megaplexes...

7-8-99, GLOBE AND MAIL, pg. C6--Fried, now the editor of Philadelphia
magazine, said he coined the word ("fashionistas"--ed.) to describe the army
of people that descend on the set of a professional fashion shoot, those he
calls "beautifying people" as opposed to the beautiful people.

7-4-99, BALTIMORE SUN, pg. 10F--British critic Roger Cardinal and his
publishers coined the word "outsiders," to use in the title of Cardinal's
1972 book on the subject.  He described outsiders as those who were isolated
from society, or obsessive, or used their artworks to create alternative.

6-28-99, COMPUTERWORLD, pg.76--These are real examples from a nascent field
known as "captology"--computers as persuasive technologies. (...) B. J. Fogg,
who heads the Persuasive Technology Laboratory at Stanford, coined the word
captology.

6-14-99, GOVERNMENT COMPUTER NEWS--Hock advocated a new kind of organization,
one that brings order out of chaos.  He coined the word "chaordic," a hybrid
of chaos and order, to describe a new kind of organizational management.

6-2-99, INTERNATIONAL PRESS SERVICE--...the corporate giants of the United
States and Western Europe are now viewed as modern-day economic colonialists.
 Americans have even coined a word for it: "coca-colonization."

5-26-99, NEW STRAITS TIMES, pg. 12--They have coined a word for what they
call the hybridisation of global culture--"glocalisation"--a melange of the
global and the local.

5-16-99, ALLENTOWN MORNING CALL, pg. E1--Eric Knight, a Philadelphia cinema
journalist before moving to Pleasant Valley, Bucks County, and writing the
novel "Lassie Come Home," coined a word for early, overly noisy talkies:
"squawkies."

4-5-99, PETROLEUM FINANCE WEEK--(Daniel--ed.) Yergin coined a word,
"globality," to describe the speed at which information can travel now.

4-2-99, NATIONAL POST (FINANCIAL POST), pg. C10--We note that Rosanne Cahn of
Credit Suisse First Boston has coined the word "disspansion" to describe the
1990s' combination of strong growth and low inflation just as worries are
beginning to surface that inflation--not disinflation--may be on the market's
front burner.

3-22-99, TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL--Thirty years ago Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, WWII
and Korean-vintage combat Marine, inveterate small arms experimenter and
superior literary stylist, coined the word "hoplophobe" to describe people
with an irrational fear of firearms, tools they believe somehow evil in
themselves--and particularly evil in the hands of fellow private citizens.

3-14-99, ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL, pg. 8--The Denver Water Department coined the
word xeriscaping to define drought-tolerant landscaping...

2-11-99, ASIAN WALL STREET JOURNAL--Malaysian analyst B. A. Hamzah has coined
a word to describe the process now under way: "Tibetization."  Southeast Asia
will wake up one day and find the South China Sea, like Tibet, in Beijing's
hands, he says.

1-15-99, PR NEWSWIRE--To help protect sellers, clear policy guidelines are
also being set forth for deadbeat bidders, a community-coined word for
bidders who do not honor their commitment after winning an auction
(eBay--ed.).

12-10-98, DEUTSCHE PRESSE-AGENTUR--"These organizations had a bias towards
the 'genocidaires' (a newly coined word to designate the perpetrators of the
1994 genocide)," Rwigema charged.

12-2-98, NEWSDAY, pg. B8--Grossman coined the word "killology," to describe
his study of soldiers killing in combat.

10-18-98, NEWSDAY, pg. G2-- The TA has ceded part of its turf to the idiots
who scratch their idle thoughts on the subway car windows.  I (Dennis
Duggan--ed.) coined a word for that years ago when these window-obscuring
doodles first appeared: scratchiti.

10-15-98, PR NEWSWIRE--"We coined the word 'Infotronics' to reflect the
synergy between mechatronics--the merger between mechanical systems and
electronics--with the Information Age," said conference chairman Dr. William
F. Powers, vice president, Research, Ford Motor Company.

10-7-98, DAILY TELEGRAPH (London), pg. 27--Mark Sheraton's claim that the
term "garbologist" was first used in Sydney in the Eighties (letter, Sept.
29) is not quite correct. (...) Don Ellis and myself first coined this word
in 1962 at the Hermitage Hotel on Mount Cook, New Zealand, in order
adequately to explain our exacting job of dumping the hotel's rubbish at the
foot of the great Tasman Glacier.  I believe this job description remains to
this day.  (Ayto has 1965--ed.)

10-1-98, MODERN PLASTICS, pg. 14--The concept of "zomes" was conceived of
more than 30 years ago by a group who established dome-shaped living quarters
in Colorado.  They combined "zonohedral" geometry with domes and coined the
word zome.

9-27-98, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER, pg. B1--Back in 1978, a free weekly
newspaper called the Express was born in Berkeley. (...) The Express' chief
claim to fame--though it's disputed by rival claimants--is that Berkeley
writer Alice Kahn coined the word "yuppie" in its pages.

9-11-98, DENVER BUSINESS JOURNAL, pg. B20--To describe (Lyndon--ed.) Johnson,
(Gene--ed.) Cervi coined the word "Republocrat--he runs like a Democrat and
votes like a Republican."  (Not in Safire's Political Dictionary--ed.)

8-9-98, TORONTO STAR, pg. E1--I (Bill Sherk, speaking about
carchaeologist--ed.) coined the word after I found my car in 1994.  Now I'm
searching for old cars that belonged to other people.

7-31-98, INTERNATIONAL PRESS SERVICE--The "burriers"--coined from the word
"burro" (mule) and courier--are upper- and middle-class women who transport
cocaine abroad.

7-5-98, STAR-LEDGER (Newark, NJ), pg. 35--...club officials maintain they
coined the word highpoint to describe the states' highest points and the
people who reach them.  The 11-year-old Highpointers Club, a 1,450-member
society, identifies the highest points for climbers and provides a guidebook.

7-1-98, SUNSET, pg. 84--In 1971, writer John McPhee coined the word Archdruid
as a tribute to environmentalist David Brower and people like him who have
dedicated their lives to conserving and preserving the environment.
(Archdruid, druid are not in RHHDAS--ed.)

6-23-98, BIOWORLD TODAY--(Alexander--ed.) Kamb coined the word "perturbagen,"
he recounted, "by analogy with mutagens.  But a mutagen alters the DNA,
whereas a perturbagen perturbs interactions between proteins, or between
enzymes and their substrates."

6-1-98, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY, pg. 26--(W. C. L.--ed.) Hemeon coined
the word "pulvation," which he defined as the non-molecular mechanical or
physical process whereby dust or mist becomes suspended in air from a
previous state of rest.

5-11-98, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, pg. E2--In '52 he (Don Hewitt, who created
60 MINUTES--ed.) coined the word "anchor man" to describe Walter Cronkite's
job at the conventions.  (Ayto has 1958--ed.)

5-5-98, THE PRESS (London), pg. 27--It is nearly 20 years since Professor
Kligman coined the word cosmecuticals...

5-5-98, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY, pg. A6--Kevin Heubusch, author of last
year's book, "The New Rating Guide to Life in America's Small Cities," has
coined the word "micropolis."

4-10-98, FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM, pg. 1--Kelly coined the word neo-Amish,
but the idea has deep roots in social and technological history.

4-3-98, THE AGE, pg. 19--Dr. King says a United States psychologist, Dorothy
Tennov, has coined a word for the early stage of courtship--generally the
first six to 12 months--calling it limerence.

4-1-98, AMERICAN CRAFT, pg. 52--Embedded within the utsuwa concept were seeds
of a new movement called mingei, an abbreviation of minshuteki kogei, meaning
craft or folk art made by the people for the people.  Soetsu Yanagi, the man
who coined the word and the person most associated with the folk craft
movement in Japan...

3-30-98, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, pg. 38--Russians have even coined a word
for underground entrepreneurs--teneviki, or "shadow people."

3-6-98, WASHINGTON POST, pg. D1--Time was the first newsmagazine.  In fact,
Time coined the word "newsmagazine," along with many other words that entered
the language--socialite, guesstimate, televangelist--and many words that did
not, including cinemactor and nudancer and sexational. (RHHDAS has
guesstimate from 1934, but with no Time citation--ed.)

3-1-98, MIT'S TECHNOLOGY REVIEW, pg. 52--A collaboratory, as defined by
computer scientist William Wulf, who coined the word in 1989, is a "center
without walls" in which users can "perform their research without regard to
geographical location..."

2-22-98, BOSTON GLOBE, pg. C1--(Peter--ed.) Drucker's fans make bold claims
for his contributions to contemporary debates.  They say that he coined the
word "privatization," first noted the significance of "the knowledge worker,"
started the fad for "management by objectives," and identified the key
discontinuity we call "postmodern."

2-17-98, BALTIMORE SUN, pg. 4E--Call them stealth bacteria. (...) Costerton,
who coined the word "biofilm" 20 years ago, thinks many scientists have long
ignored its importance.

12-27-97, TIMARU HERALD, pg. 2--The (cancer--ed.) society has coined the word
"tanorexic" to describe the hard-to-combat obsession with sun-tanning.

11-25-97, THE HINDU--Michael Talbot has coined the word "omnijective" to
explain the fact that consciousness and the physical world are not separate
but form one fundamental area of awareness which is neither purely objective
nor purely subjective.

11-1-97, POPULAR SCIENCE, pg. 96--Air Force Col. Mike Francis of the Defense
Airborner Reconnaissance Office, one of the most active proponents of combat
drones, has coined the word "attritable" to signify that the UCAV, while it
should survive and perform several missions, should also be a resource that
the commander can afford to lose.

11-1-97, NEW MEXICO BUSINESS JOURNAL, pg. 39--But Lautman, who coined the
word "teleserving" to describe the new jobs...

9-23-97, WEST AUSTRALIAN, pg. 11--Digerati is a recently coined word used by
(John--ed.) Brockman....

9-19-97, NEW ORLEANS TIMES-PICAYUNE, pg. B6--Peirce coined the word citistate
to define the symbiotic relationship, economic and otherwise, between the
city and its suburbs.

8-24-97, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, pg. 3--So many of them hunger for a piece
of the action that writer Keith Dawson (http://tbtf.com/) coined a word for
it: Siliconia.  Dawson defines Siliconia as "the appropriations of names
beginning with 'Silicon' by areas outside Silicon Valley."

8-21-97, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, pg. C4--He (Robert Hoffman--ed.) coined the
word "quadrinity" to describe his holistic model of the human being--which
included physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual elements.

7-17-97, THE HUMANIST, pg. 47--For example, Sarah Oelberg coined the word
protohumanist for those women ministers went to the "wilds" of the Midwest in
the last century...

7-8-97, ASSOCIATED PRESS--Members call the group "Unique Editions" and have
coined the word "tradigital" to describe their own work--a blend of
traditional and computer techniques.

6-22-97, SOCIAL RESEARCH, pg. 301--...the Iranian social critic Jalal Al-e
Ahmad ((1964) 1982) coined the word "Westoxification" to describe what he
perceived as widespread social alienation resulting from contacts with the
West.

6-3-97, GLOBE AND MAIL, pg. C8--Hewlett-Packard Co. of Palo Alto, Calif., has
coined the word "mopying" to describe multicopying using printers instead of
photocopiers.  A printer designed especially for this purpose has been dubbed
a "mopier."

5-19-97, THE NEW REPUBLIC, pg. 12--He (August Heckscher--ed.) coined the word
"arboricide" for the crime of killing trees...

To be continued.