"whistleblower" history

[Ben Zimmer]

For my Wall Street Journal column I wrote about the history of the term
"whistleblower":

http://on.wsj.com/whistlebz

In my Word Routes followup, I provide some more background, including cites
discovered by Garson O'Toole, Barry Popik, and Victor Steinbok:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/a-whistlestop-tour-of-whistleblowers/

--bgz

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