the fight over "app store"

[Ben Zimmer]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>
> This CNN piece on the feud between Apple and Amazon over "app store"
> mentions the WOTY win for "app" and quotes a few ADS-ers: me, Wayne Glowka,
> and Bill Kretzschmar (Bill, it should be remembered, nominated "app" from
> the floor):
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/03/22/app.store.fight/index.html

I wrote about the "app store" feud on Word Routes and in the NYT Week in Review:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/2674/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/weekinreview/27zimmer.html

And in this week's developments, the Wall St. Journal reports that our
own Ron Butters provided expert testimony in Microsoft's complaint
against Apple over the trademarkability of "app store":

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110329-714842.html

Commentary by Mark Liberman on Language Log here:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3059

--bgz

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