Fashionista coinage coverage in The Chronicle of Higher Education

Thu Aug 21 08:57:46 UTC 2014

The origin of the word "fashionista" was discussed on the ADS mailing
list in May 2013. Now, Ben Yagoda has published a wonderfully
entertaining piece on this topic:

Title: Local Boy Makes Word?
Author: Ben Yagoda
Date: August 20, 2014
Website: Lingua Franca blog of The Chronicle of Higher Education

http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2014/08/20/local-boy-makes-word/

(Thanks to Barry Popik for his off-list email notification about this
excellent article.)

Garson

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