Interview on the WBUR show “Here and Now” about the controversial use of “Geronimo” as a codeword in the Osama bin Laden raid. (May 5, 2011)
Ben Zimmer, executive producer of the Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com, tells us how Geronimo made its way into military parlance and discusses why so many Native American terms pervade our culture, despite objections from American Indian groups.
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