informatics

[Joel S. Berson]

As for newness and invention, according to the OED Online it's nearly
50 years old, from 1967.  And probably invented by practitioners, not
an institution of higher learning.

(The construction as a plural seems to be Jon's invention -- I don't
find it on the Adelphi page.  Unless he means that there are several
sub-areas, "health informatics" being one.)

Joel

At 4/15/2014 09:53 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

>Major in them at Adelphi:
>
>http://onlinemshidegree.adelphi.edu/lp-new/?Access_Code=AU-MSHI-YAHOOCONTENT&kwd=stream_ad&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=stream_ad
>
>It used to be that such gimmicky new words were restricted to greedy,
>cynical advertisers. Now institutions of higher learning are inventing them.
>
>Oh. Right. Silly me.
>
>JL

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