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A few years ago we were volunteer readers for Frederic G. Cassidy's Dictionary of American Regional English . In going through an early explorer's journal we found frequent references to some mountains called The Teats . After investigating we found that in the 1800s this was the common name for what we now use French for so that we can genteelly talk about The Grand Tetons .
The idea that Cassidy refers to is that of "increasing returns"--which says that goods become cheaper the more of them you produce (and the closely related idea of "network externalities," which says that some products, like fax machines, become more useful the more people use them).
Matt Alsdorf (Editorial Assistant), Michael Brus (Editorial Assistant), Angela Claire Cassidy (Proofreader), Conny Chen (Production Assistant), Josh Daniel (Managing Editor), Jonathan Epstein (Software Development Engineer), Gretchen Evanson (Office Manager), Eve Gerber (Editorial Assistant), Siân Gibby (Copy Editor), Lori Johnson (Production Designer), Jodi Kantor (Associate Editor), Kathleen Kincaid (Design Director), Michael Kinsley (Editor), Cyrus Krohn (Associate Publisher), Linda Leste (Marketing Manager), Joseph Lacson (Product Planner), Scott Moore (Publisher), Seema Pareek (Software Design Engineer), David Plotz (Washington Bureau Chief), Peter Randall (Program Manager), Oswaldo Ribas (Program Manager), William Saletan (Senior Writer), José Saura (Software Development Engineer), Jack Shafer (Deputy Editor), Igor Shames (Support Engineer), Dan Shen (Software Development Engineer), Judith Shulevitz (New York Editor), Scott Shuger (Senior Writer), Laurie Snyder (Copy Editor), JoAnne Spencer (Production Assistant), Chris Suellentrop (Editorial Assistant), June Thomas (Copy Chief), Clay Thurmond (Copy Editor), Eliza Truitt (Associate Editor), Donald Vaughn (Support Engineer), Jacob Weisberg (Chief Political Correspondent).
I wasn't at that 1984 Harvard seminar that Cassidy describes.
My guess is that Cassidy reached the same conclusion.
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