101

[Thomas Paikeday]

Here is an interesting entry FWIW from _The User's Webster Dictionary,_ 2000
(reviewed in DICTIONARIES 2003). It is entered between "one-off" and
"onerous":

101 (wun.oh.WUN) _comb.form._: elementary level in a subject: _You start the
program with Rocket Science 101; The brash new recruit had skipped Modesty
101._

BTW, UWD's first printing (available free on our website) has been sold out.
Next one awaited this year.

Thomas M. Paikeday
www.paikeday.net


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> It's been common for what, over a decade? But it's not in OED or M-W
> Online: "101" after the name of a topic, meaning 'the basic information
> about..., introduction to...', as in many colleges' course catalogs.
>
>  http://www.jewfaq.org/
>  Welcome to Judaism 101! Judaism 101 is an online encyclopedia of
> Judaism,
>
>  http://www.asp101.com/
>  The place ASP developers GO!
>
>  http://www.internet101.org/
>  to learn about the Internet and how it works
>
>  http://www.islam101.com/
>  Islam 101 is an educational site on Islam, its way of life,
> civilization and culture
>
>  Mortgage101.com Answers to Your Mortgage Questions
>
>  Toiletology 101: Free Toilet Repair Course
>
>  CGI Programming 101 - Learn CGI Today!
>
>  Musicals101.com - The Cyber Encyclopedia of Musicals
>
> Not surprisingly, Google has a lot of hits from computer-related sites
> and sites with '101' in their names. The above are from the first 20 of
> "about 18,700,000" hits.
>
> I hardly expect this usage to be news to any reader of this list, but I
> was surprised not to find it in dictionaries.
>
> -- Mark A. Mandel
>    Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania