page_title: Barry Popik
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context_page_description: Barry Popik is an American etymologist who is recognized as an expert on the origins of the terms "Big Apple", "Windy City", and "hot dog". He is a consulting editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America and was described in The Wall Street Journal as "the restless genius of American etymology".
context_section_description: Barry Popik (born 1961) is an American etymologist who is recognized as an expert on the origins of the terms "Big Apple", "Windy City", and "hot dog". He is a consulting editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America and was described in The Wall Street Journal as "the restless genius of American etymology".
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