The name "international scientific vocabulary" was first used by Philip Gove in Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961).McArthur, Tom (editor), The Oxford Companion to the English Language. Oxford University Press, 1992. As noted by David Crystal,Crystal, David, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Cambridge University Press, 1995. science is an especially productive field for new coinages. It is also especially predisposed to immediate translingual sharing of words owing to its very nature: scientists working in many countries and languages, reading each other's latest articles in scientific journals (via foreign language skills, translation help, or both), and eager to apply any reported advances to their own context.
The name "international scientific vocabulary" was first used by Philip Gove in Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961).McArthur, Tom (editor), The Oxford Companion to the English Language. Oxford University Press, 1992. As noted by David CrystalCrystal, David, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Cambridge University Press, 1995. science is an especially productive field for new coinages. It is also especially predisposed to immediate translingual sharing of words owing to its very nature: scientists working in many countries and languages, reading each other's latest articles in scientific journals (via foreign language skills, translation help, or both), and eager to apply any reported advances to their own context.