refugee, IDP, evacuee

[Benjamin Zimmer]

This has been quite a week for the embattled word "refugee". Here's a
round-up of news and op/ed pieces to supplement Geoff Nunberg's admirable
analysis...

News articles:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/06/AR2005090601214.html
Associated Press, 9/6, "Use of Word 'Refugee' Stirs Race Debate"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/06/AR2005090601896.html
Washington Post, 9/7, "'Refugee': A Word of Trouble"

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509080186sep08,1,5717694.story
Chicago Tribune, 9/8, "Some take offense at 'refugees'"

Op/Ed:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/3345865
Houston Chronicle, 9/8, "Lexicon of Disaster"

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-0509080032sep08,1,4516170.column
Chicago Tribune, 9/8, "Refugees, evacuees, victims or survivors?"

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-0509080185sep08,1,513882.column
Chicago Tribune, 9/8, "Changing words, pictures won't change reality"

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/bal-ed.refugee08sep08,1,7197655.story
Baltimore Sun, 9/8, "Semantics and symbolism"

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/breaking_news/12604510.htm
Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/9, "'Refugees' or not, they suffer and need refuge"

http://www.times-standard.com/opinion/ci_3014481
Eureka Times-Standard, 9/9, "A refugee by any other name"


--Ben Zimmer