Nonliners
Michael Quinion
wordseditor at WORLDWIDEWORDS.ORG
Sun Nov 23 09:43:59 UTC 2008
A BBC report on Friday (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7736389.stm)
used "nonliners" to mean those who were not online, specifically without a
broadband connection. It's a curious neologism.
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Michael Quinion
Editor, World Wide Words
E-mail: wordseditor at worldwidewords.org
Web: http://www.worldwidewords.org
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