Grand Strand & DUNNAGAN'S DICTIONYMS

[Grant Barrett]

On Monday, January 31, 2000, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
     "I think we have the most comprehensive book on everything under the
sun--including the sun," says Claude V. Dunnagan, newspaperman and
self-described hacker.  "There's nothing else like it in the world."

Yeah, I always liked the journalist/writer version of the word "hacker" and the more
usual noun version, "hack." It's a shame. I can't use it anymore to describe the
kind of writing my classmates do and the kind of editing some of my instructors do.
Everyone, of course, thinks of the computing term.

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Grant Barrett
gbarrett at americandialect.org