FSU

[Barnhart]

The Barnhart New-Words Concordance (Supplement) records it as an entry in
The Barnhart Dictionary Companion (Vol. 9.1, c1994) with an earliest quote
(e.q.) from 1991.

Regards,
David K. Barnhart

barnhart at highlands.com

American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on Saturday, July 09,
2005 at 7:25 AM -0500 wrote:
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>Poster:       "James A. Landau" <JJJRLandau at AOL.COM>
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>This has undoubtedly been around for a while, but it's a new one on me.
>
>"FSU" = "Former Soviet Union"
>
>"Federation initiates $100,000 emergency dirve to help save at-risk Jews
>in
>FSU"
>Jewish Times of South Jersey, Volume 9, number 27, August 8, 2005, page 1.
>
>Also from the Jewish TImes of SJ, "minyanaire" meaning someone who
>regularly
>attends daily minyans.  "Minyanaire" has been current in my synagogue for
>some
>time, but I first saw it in print about a month ago in the Jewish Times.
>
>    - Jim Landau (who may or may not have bats in his belfry, but who
>definitely has a family of racoons in his attic)