Bryson•s Dictionary for Writers and Editors

GDR / Geneva Convention � 137
thing produced by a nation during a given period, including
earnings from abroad. GDP, gross domestic product, is everything
produced by a nation during a given period, except earnings
from abroad.
GDR. German Democratic Republic; the former East Germany.
geezer. An old man.
Geffrye Museum, London.
gefilte fish. (Yid.) Chopped-fish dish.
Gehrig, Lou. (1903–1941) Baseball player, full name Henry Louis
Gehrig.
Gehry, Frank. (1929–) Canadian-American architect; born Ephraim
Owen Goldberg.
Geiger counter. (Cap.) Measures radioactivity; devised by the German
physicist Hans Geiger (1882–1945).
Geisenheimer wine.
gelatin is the usual spelling, but gelatine is also accepted.
Gell-Mann, Murray. (1929–) American physicist, awarded Nobel Prize
for Physics in 1969.
gemütlich. (Ger.) Agreeable, comfortable, good-natured.
Gemütlichkeit. (Ger.) Congeniality, friendliness.
gendarmes are not policemen; they are soldiers employed in police
duties, principally in the countryside. Police officers in French
cities and towns are just that—police officers.
genealogy.
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. (Abbr. GATT.) UN body set up
to promote world trade.
generalissimo, pl. generalissimos. But note in Spanish it is generalisimo
(one s).
Geneva, Switzerland; it is Genève in French, Genf in German, and
Ginevra in Italian; Lake Geneva is Lac Léman in French and
Genfersee in German.
Geneva Convention. (1864; rev. 1950, 1978) International agreement