Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 09:11:53 CST

From: Luanne von Schneidemesser lvonschn[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU

Subject: Re: new word



In Message Mon, 12 Feb 1996 09:14:43 -0500,

"Gregory J. Pulliam" HUMPULLIAM[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MINNA.ACC.IIT.EDU writes:



Has "netizen" been posted to the new word list yet? It appeared in Sunday's

Chicago Tribune, with the derivation netizen=(inter)NET + (cit)IZEN. I

forget the section it was in, but it was prominently boxed, so it'd be

pretty easy to find--had I not already recycled the paper. Sorry.

Greg Pulliam

Illinois Institute of Technology

Chicago



So we are netizens of "cyburbia," as Andrew Shapiro of the Nation calls it.



Luanne





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