Bryson•s Dictionary for Writers and Editors

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GNP, GDP / Good-natur’d Man, The
GNP, GDP. GNP, gross national product, is the total worth of everything
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.
gobbledygook.
Gobelin tapestry. Named for a textile works in Paris.
Gobi Desert.
Godard, Jean-Luc. (1930–) French film director.
Goddard, Robert Hutchings. (1882–1945) American rocket scientist.
godsend, godforsaken, godhead (no caps.), but God-awful, God-fearing,
and Godspeed (caps.).
Godthaab. Former name of the capital of Greenland; now called
Nuuk.
Godwin Austen. Not Austin; no hyphen. More commonly called K2,
the highest mountain in the Karakoram Range of the Himalayas.
Goebbels, Joseph. (1897–1945) German Nazi propaganda chief.
Goering/Göring, Hermann. (1893–1946) Leading Nazi, second in command
to Hitler.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. (1749–1832) German poet and dramatist.
Gogol, Nikolai. (1809–1852) Russian novelist and playwright.
Golgi body. Structure found within cells.
Gomorrah. Ancient city in Palestine.
Goneril. One of Lear’s daughters in Shakespeare’s King Lear.
gonof (or ganef). (Yid.) A thief or disreputable person.
gonorrhea.
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, England; normally
referred to as just Caius; pronounced keys.
goodbye. (One word.)
Good-natur’d Man, The. Comedy by Oliver Goldsmith (1768).