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National-Security Letter Challenged

September 12, 2005, 8:12 am

A Connecticut organization that received an order from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to turn over the records of library patrons should be allowed to identify itself publicly, a federal judge ruled on Friday. The FBI order was issued under the USA Patriot Act, a controversial law intended to help prevent domestic terrorism. (The Chronicle, subscription required)

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6 Responses to National-Security Letter Challenged

dank48 - December 8, 2011 at 9:50 am

Aps.

Okay, it’s just a shortening, and it didn’t really first occur this year, but it’s become imo remarkably repellent in a very short time.

Ben Zimmer - December 8, 2011 at 2:03 pm

dank48: The ADS did in fact select “app” as its Word of the Year for 2010. http://www.americandialect.org/app-voted-2010-word-of-the-year-by-the-american-dialect-society-updated

jbarman - December 8, 2011 at 2:18 pm

Here are five nominees:

“OWS” – for Occupy Wall Street
“Tebowing” – for what the Bronco quarterback inflicts upon us when his team wins
“debt crisis” – which is now so overused it has become almost meaningless
“The American People” – the phrase we can expect to hear more than any other as we move through hard-core politicking season
“jobs” – vying to become as overused as the previous two entries, with equally ephemeral results. Also can be used as in “the next Steve Jobs”.

pbgough - December 8, 2011 at 3:14 pm

Geoff Nunberg did a piece on NPR the other day arguing for “occupy” as WOTY, and I think his is a good choice. It’s only been in use in the late months of the year, but it has surely spread beyond Wall Street and now seems to crop up everywhere, sometimes with a veiled reference to the goals of the original group, but often without. But why am I trying to summarize him. Here’s the link:
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/07/143265669/occupy-geoff-nunbergs-2011-word-of-the-year
Bruce Smith

dank48 - December 8, 2011 at 4:45 pm

Thanks, Ben Zimmer.

That’s me: a year behind the times.

beedhamm - December 9, 2011 at 5:47 pm

No worries Dank. There’s an app for that.