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Word: ordinateur (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1976-1976
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...part of their everyday vocabulary: such non-bons mots as bestseller, sexy, blue jeans, bowling, gadget, checkup, checkout, jumbo jet, baby sitter, nonstop, dead heat (pronounced did it), hot dog, hijack, racket, zoom, jukebox, call girl, marketing, merchandising and leasing. Evidemment, the government will need un computer -preferred usage: ordinateur-to track down the offending business man, a designation that is not precisely conveyed by its closest French equivalent, l'homme d'affaires, and even less by la femme d'affaires, a term that could apply to a woman who does not know the bottom line from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Non-Bons Mots in France | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

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