Brunvand feels that urban legend is less stigmatizing because myth is commonly used to describe things that are widely accepted as untrue.

The term hoax is occasionally used in reference to urban legends and rumors, but the folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand argues that most of them lack evidence of deliberate creations of falsehood and are passed along in good faith by believers or as jokes, so the term should be used for only those with a probable conscious attempt to deceive.

Moreover, as Jan Brunvand pointed out antecedent legends including some of the motifs, themes and symbolism of these urtexts can readily be identified.

According to Brian Dunning of Skeptoid, folk tales of the Jersey Devil prior to 1909 calling it the " Leeds Devil " may have been created to discredit local politician Daniel Leeds who served as deputy to the colonial governor of New York and New Jersey in the 1700s, and folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand wrote that the spread of contemporary pop culture has overtaken traditional Jersey Devil legends.

Snopes has received praise from folklorist Dr. Jan Harold Brunvand, author of a number of books on urban legends and modern folklore, who considers the site so comprehensive as to obviate the necessity for launching one of his own.

* Brunvand, Jan Harold, ( 1981 ), The Vanishing Hitchhiker ( ISBN 0-393-95169-3 )

* Jan Harold Brunvand: The Vanishing Hitchhiker, etc.

* Brunvand, Jan Harold ( 1996 ) American Folklore: An Encyclopedia Taylor & Francis, page 130f.

Over the years, prominent members of the American Folklore Society known outside of academic circles have included Mark Twain, Joel Chandler Harris, Zora Neale Hurston, Franz Boas, Ella Deloria, Ben Botkin, Alan Lomax, John A. Lomax, Jan Harold Brunvand, William Ferris, John Miles Foley and Marius Barbeau.

Jan Harold Brunvand, professor of English at the University of Utah, introduced the term to the general public in a series of popular books published beginning in 1981.

Brunvand discovered 383 oral examples of Type 901 spread over all of Europe, whereas he could find only 35 literary examples, leading him to the conclusion that if Shakespeare took this story from anywhere, he most likely took it from the oral tradition.

It is probably best known from urban legend studies, where it was popularized by Jan Harold Brunvand.

This was contested by some critics, including urban legend expert Jan Harold Brunvand.

A major factor in the dominance of this theory is the work of Jan Harold Brunvand.

In 1966, Brunvand argued that the main source for the play was not literary, but instead the oral folktale tradition.

Specifically, Brunvand argued that the Petruchio / Katherina story represents a subtype of Type 901 (' Shrew-taming Complex ') in the Aarne – Thompson classification system.

* Brunvand, J. H.

* Brunvand, Jan Herald.

I used to go with Watson to call on the eminent neurologist at his apartment, to sit among the doctor's excellent collection of statues, paintings, and books and drink Oriental coffee while Watson seemed to thaw out and become almost affable.

The collection of information is meaningless unless it is understood and used for a definite purpose.

Principal Clayton W. Pohly said he would allow a further collection between classes today, and revealed that Y-Teen Club past surpluses had been used to provide a private hospital nurse Monday for Mrs. Kowalski.

it maintains a central exhibit collection to share displays already created and used ; ;

Geology, You and Dave used his rock collection for the bottom of the fishpond six years ago!!

Its domain is the powerset of A ( with the empty set removed ), and so makes sense for any set A, whereas with the definition used elsewhere in this article, the domain of a choice function on a collection of sets is that collection, and so only makes sense for sets of sets.

The term array is often used to mean array data type, a kind of data type provided by most high-level programming languages that consists of a collection of values or variables that can be selected by one or more indices computed at run-time.

The project included collection and identification of all stone fragments, even small ones, from the Acropolis and its slopes and the attempt was made to restore as much as possible using reassembled original material-with new marble from Mount Penteli used sparingly.

The town is famed for manufacturing the hardest and densest building bricks in the world, " The Accrington NORI " ( iron ), which were used in the construction of the Empire State Building and for the foundations of Blackpool Tower ; famous for its football team and for having Europe's largest collection of Tiffany Glass.

Open toll collection is used on some bridges and tunnels and short stretches of tolled highway, where drivers immediately pay the toll upon arriving.

The Scoville Memorial Libraries collection began in 1771, when Richard Smith, owner of a local blast furnace, used community contributions to buy 200 books in London.

( Garbage collection typically does not deal with the unbounded accumulation of data which is reachable, but which will actually not be used by the program.

The collection included prints of the photographs, two of the cameras used by the girls, watercolours of fairies painted by Elsie, and a nine-page letter from Elsie admitting to the hoax.

One of these was Musikalisches Würfelspiel ( Musical dice game ; 18th century ), a system which used throws of the dice to randomly select measures from a large collection of small phrases.

Historically, a great number of coinage metals ( including alloys ) and other materials ( e. g. Porcelain ) have been used practically, artistically, and experimentally in the production of coins for circulation, collection, and metal investment, where bullion coins often serve as more convenient stores of assured metal quantity and purity than other bullion.

Dynamic HTML, or DHTML, is an umbrella term for a collection of technologies used together to create interactive and animated web sites by using a combination of a static markup language ( such as HTML ), a client-side scripting language ( such as JavaScript ), a presentation definition language ( such as CSS ), and the Document Object Model.

ECHELON is a name used in global media and in popular culture to describe a signals intelligence ( SIGINT ) collection and analysis network operated on behalf of the five signatory states to the UK – USA Security Agreement ( Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, referred to by a number of abbreviations, including AUSCANNZUKUS and Five Eyes ).

The European Parliament stated in its report that the term ECHELON is used in a number of contexts, but that the evidence presented indicates that it was the name for a signals intelligence collection system.

The collection includes many items Poe used during his time with the Allan family and also features several rare first printings of Poe works.

Some of this work employed infrared technology — previously used for satellite imaging — to detect previously unknown material by Euripides in fragments of the Oxyrhynchus papyri, a collection of ancient manuscripts held by the university.

It is used to indicate how far, on average, the collection of estimates are from the single parameter being estimated.

It is used to indicate how far, on average, the collection of estimates are from the expected value of the estimates.

Further information on clandestine HUMINT ( human intelligence ) information collection techniques is available, including discussions of operational techniques, asset recruiting and the tradecraft used to collect this information.

Piston samplers, employing a thin-walled tube, are most commonly used for the collection of less disturbed samples.