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Greetings, oh esteemed listeners. This is another newsletter from A Way with Words. On the air this past weekend, we talked a bit about giving nicknames to inanimate objects, druthers, Hispanic vs. Latino, stingaree, and people who can't quite...
heritage callout n.—Gloss: a design that references a particular ethnic, racial, or national group, such as traditional Native American patterns on products targeted at Native Americans. «The design features several “heritage...
ziatype n.— «Kersey uses several processes for printing his pictures, from traditional silver gelatin prints to a mysterious, little-known technique called a ziatype. Named after the Native American word zia, meaning “sun,”...
narrow-back
n.— «Narrow-back. Irish- immigrants term for native American.» —“[pencil] Motormen and Conductors” Lexicon of Trade Jargon , 1938-39. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
eat up the camera v. phr.— «Thunder Mountain media is currently conducting a talent search for Native American men and women between the ages of 18 and 50 that, as they say in Hollywood, “eat up the camera.” The producers say...