Thursday, July 22, 2010

Where do I find the name of people who coined a popular term?

Like Alfred Winslow Jones coined the term 'Hedge Fund', Deepak Mohoni coined the term 'Sensex', and so on.





If you know please tell.

Where do I find the name of people who coined a popular term?
http://www.etymonline.com/





Try that, it has a lot of words/phrases and their history.





Other searches for etymology (history of a word) will bring up other sites. Also try searching for your word/phrase and the word etymology. Hope that helps.
Reply:This might surprise you:





Below are some of Shakespeare's many coinages!


Click on a word to see the works in which it appears.





http://www.rhymezone.com/r/gwic.cgi?Path...
Reply:Norbert Wiener - cybernetics


Ken Wilber - holons; AQAL (all levels, all quadrants)
Reply:http://w3k.org/pages/top_rated.html


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