In 1925, an Oxford student named Alan Ross noticed that certain speech habits were becoming markers of social class, and he began collecting examples.
But I for one am collecting different kinds of stuff: I've got a board collecting examples of right-wing craziness from the US, for example; and a board of books.
The president met privately with a group of college presidents in December, and has been collecting examples of colleges that have kept their costs from spiraling upward.
To put some distance between himself and his consuming passion, he said, he made repeated trips to China, where he began collecting examples of what would soon become an overarching theme: societies in transition.
But they insist that any final measure will have to contain some policy provisions sought by Republicans, and to bolster their case they are collecting examples of cases when President Obama and Congressional Democrats added such legislation to spending bills.
By collecting examples from the Internet, published accounts and its workers' personal experiences, the Jack in the Box restaurant chain compiled an informal tally last year of about 50 unusual types of drive-throughs and drive-ins, but a spokesman said that the list was not complete.
Lastly, only a few papers have examined the consignment clearance system in detail presumably because of the difficulty associated with collecting examples and cases concerning customs operations.
Over the past few months, I've started passively collecting examples of items and products that trivialize stalking.
"We loved collecting examples of this everywhere, from haunted portraits of film noir, to Clive Owen shoot-em-ups in the Guggenheim (in The International, 2009)," the Swiss Institute says.
We introduce basic concepts in SNA, along with methods for data collection, data processing, and data analysis, using a previously collected example study on an undergraduate biology classroom as a tutorial.
But each year the media watchers at FAIR are able to collect example after vivid example of such influence for the annual report "Fear & Favor: How Power Shapes the News".
