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...University Professor Stanley Hoffmann, a longtime observer of French politics. "He's not exactly the warmest person either." Even on television-where his confidence and lucidity come across best-Giscard cannot shake what many see as a handicap-a quasi-aristocratic background, suggested by the "d'Estaing" suffix borrowed from an extinct noble family. "Two centuries after the revolution, the French still don't like aristocrats," says a Paris banker...
...investors rushed to buy electronics stocks, and in the early 1970s new computer firms were the rage. Both markets ultimately collapsed. Recalls Stanley Pratt of Venture Capital Journal: "Then two guys in a phone booth could raise several million dollars just by coming up with an idea, putting the suffix 'onics' on the end of it and making it public...
Lindenmann decided to call the mysterious stuff interferon, a hybrid of "interference" and the suffix "on," which was in vogue among biologists, who were using such names as cistron, recon and muton to describe new genetic concepts. The initial discovery was made in November and duly recorded in Isaacs' lab notebook under the entry: "In search of an interferon." Lindenmann took it all in stride. Said he: "I thought it quite natural that when you did research you discovered things...
Illinois' name originates from an Indian word and French suffix which means "tribe of superior...
...great battle of the suffix person is still unresolved. Chairman briefly became chairperson, but many now settle simply for chair, as in "she was the chair of the committee." The problem with person-policeperson, committee-person, showperson-is that it sounds ridiculous. The Naval Academy wisely insists that its women students will be called midshipmen. Person is still acceptable when used independently to designate either a man or a woman. When White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen mentions future Government appointees, he is very careful these days to speak of person instead...