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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Boojum tree, & other words stolen from literature #67397 04/27/2002 6:35 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Those with access to a decent library might care to look up English Today No.24 (October 1990), which has a fascinating article called E Pluribus Boojum by the physicist N. David Mermin on his struggle to get boojum accepted as the standard term for a phenomenon occurring in spherical drops of superfluid helium-3. Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Boojum tree, & other words stolen from literature Keiva 04/26/2002 7:59 PM Re: Boojum tree, & other words stolen from literature Bingley 04/27/2002 6:35 AM Re: No other stolen from literature AphonicRants 05/11/2002 2:27 AM Re: No other stolen from literature Faldage 05/11/2002 12:07 PM Re: No other stolen from literature AphonicRants 05/11/2002 4:17 PM Re: No other stolen from literature Geoff 05/11/2002 5:29 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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