Hundreds of occupational surnames are at once familiar to us, or at least recognizable after a little thought: Archer, Carter, Fisher, Mason, Thatcher, Taylor, to name but a few.
But as neither had ever reached a decision without prefacing it by this mysterious conclave, Mrs. Archer and her son, having set forth their case, waited resignedly for the familiar phrase.
For example, when the board of the University of Colorado searched for a new president, it wanted a leader familiar with the state government, a major source of the university's budget.
The UNIX or Linux tee application does what its name suggests if you're familiar with various plumbing connectors—it splits its input into two different streams.
"Still, gamification only stands to become more popular," he says, "as more and more people come into the workforce who are familiar with the structures and expressions of digital games."