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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