In popular myth, the word ' documentary ' was coined by Scottish documentarian John Grierson in his review of Robert Flaherty's film Moana ( 1926 ), published in the New York Sun on 8 February 1926, written by " The Moviegoer " ( a pen name for Grierson ).

The film, on its release, was not as successful as Nanook of the North domestically, but it did very well in Europe, inspiring John Grierson to coin the word " documentary.

According to Diane Bornstein, one way to reconcile the differences between the references to courts of love in the literature, and the lack of documentary evidence in real life, is that they were like literary salons or social gatherings, where people read poems, debated questions of love, and played word games of flirtation.

The word documentary is also an adjective meaning " related to, or based on, documents ".

The word was popularized by Nanook of the North, the first feature-length documentary.

" He added, " The Hurricane is not a documentary but a parable, in which two lives are saved by the power of the written word.

Critic Bosley Crowther noted that its " striking and authentic documentary quality has been imported to the whole film in every detail, attitude and word.

* The N-Word, Peabody Award-winning documentary starring Whoopi Goldberg, Samuel L. Jackson and many other African American celebrities discussing the origin and power of the word nigger.

The use of " marbellí " as a gentilic was popularised by the writer and journalist Victor de la Serna ( 1896 – 1958 ), who wrote a series of documentary articles on " The Navy of Andalucía "; in his research he had come upon the Historia de Málaga y Su Provincia ( History of Málaga and the Province ) by Francisco Guillén Robles, who used the word to designate the Muslim inhabitants of Marbella.

As part of a BBC documentary University Challenge: The Story so Far she claimed that during her appearance, she swore after getting a question wrong, although the actual word was bleeped out of the recording.

The word " fuck " or its derivatives are used 436 times in this 142-minute film, an average of 3. 1 times per minute, on which the film is number two ( number one being a documentary on the word ).

A mondo film ( from the Italian word for ' world ') is an exploitation documentary film, sometimes resembling a pseudo-documentary, usually depicting sensational topics, scenes, and situations.

" When most people think of the word “ documentary ,” they think of the observational mode that Leacock, Drew, and Pennebaker all played such a huge role in creating.

But more probably, the name is coming from the Hungarian word dió ( nut as fruit ) with the suffix-d, so, after the first documentary citation, " villa Gyog " from 1291 appeared as Dyod és Dyog ( 1397 ), Aldyogh ( 1407 ), Algyogh ( 1412 ), Aldyod ( 1439 ), Alsodyod alio nomine Alsoffalwa ( around 1444 ).

The collection features spoken word tracks from different band members recorded throughout the 1990s during production of the Endless Harmony documentary, as well as a clip from a 1969 radio show.

Askaules ( Greek: ἄσκαυλος from ἀσκός " bag " and αὐλός " pipe "), probably the Greek word for bag-piper, although there is no documentary authority for its use.

However this scene as described above and depicted in the flim Born on the Fourth of July, was actually not in the book by Ron Kovic but was taken almost frame for frame and word by word from a documentary film made at the 1972 Republican Convention in Miami 1972 titled " Operaton Last Patrol " ( film ) by filmmaker and actor Frank Cavestani, and world famous photo journalist Cathrine Leroy.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

'' ( The Grafin was partial to the word shall.

There was no doubt that Herr Schaffner meant every word of what he said.

Hot, that was the word, hot!!

Next day, word came that Miriam was not going through with the divorce ; ;

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

There was one particular word that troubled his conscience.

This was the Greek word most often translated as `` baptism ''.

Mr. Hearst's telegraphic code word for Victor Watson was `` fatboy ''.

That word was withheld when the need of it seemed the measure of his despair.

A little boy came to give the President his personal condolences, and the President gave word that any little boy who wanted to see him was to be shown in.

The word was that this too was part of an economy move on his part.

The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

Promptly their livestock was taken and according to Gorton the soldiers were ordered to knock down anyone who should utter a word of insolence, and run through anyone who might step out of line.

Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.

Fosdick insisted that a strong word was needed from Washington, and it was immediately forthcoming.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.

She'd found one and she hadn't said a word while Big Hans and I had hunted and hunted as we always did all winter, every winter since the spring that Hans had come and I had looked in the privy and found the first one.

In analyzing the watercolors of Roy Mason, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness, yet this word has such a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here.

The word `` binomial '' means `` of two names '' or `` of two terms '', and both usages apply in our work: the first to the names of the two outcomes of a binomial trial, and the second to the terms P and Af that represent the probabilities of `` success '' and `` failure ''.

Even then, the flexibility of the phrasing suggests that the word comes first in importance.

The first item in the operand, IOCSIXF, is used to specify the first IOCS index word for programs using tape files.

I have been using the word `` vocational '' as a layman would at first sight think it should be used.

This word was first applied to the imported hot-blooded cattle, but later was more commonly used as reference to a human tenderfoot.

the first use of the word `` rustler '' was as a synonym for `` hustler '', becomin' an established term for any person who was active, pushin', and bustlin' in any enterprise.

This was the first word from Jensen on his sudden walkout.

The word amphibian became restricted in the taxonomical sense to what we now use around 1600, with the taxon " Amphibia " first published in scientific classification circa 1819.

The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

The word " alphabet " in English has a source in Greek language in which the first two letters were " A " ( alpha ) and " B " ( beta ), hence " alphabeta ".

It is Rieux who treats the first victim of plague and who first uses the word plague to describe the disease.

His successor President Barack Obama has expressed his desire to recognize the Armenian Genocide during the electoral campaigns, but after being elected, has not used the word genocide in his first annual April 24 speech in 2009.

A contraction of a word is made by omitting certain letters or syllables and bringing together the first and last letters or elements ; an abbreviation may be made by omitting certain portions from the interior or by cutting off a part.

If the original word was capitalised, then the first letter of its abbreviation should retain the capital, for example Lev.

The word Applet was first used in 1990 in PC Magazine.

* In Bananagrams, players place tiles from a pool into crossword-style word arrangements in a race to see who can finish the pool of tiles first.

The word " electron " was coined in 1891 by the Irish physicist George Stoney whilst analyzing elementary charges for the first time.

* Giuseppe Barzilai goes back for explanation to the first verse of the prayer attributed to Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah, the literal rendering of which is “ O, with thy mighty right hand deliver the unhappy ,” forming from the initial and final letters of the words the word Abrakd ( pronounced Abrakad ), with the meaning “ the host of the winged ones ,” i. e., angels.