Just a few years ago, it was such a common insult in playgrounds and elsewhere that the Spastic Society dropped the term altogether, changing its name to Scope.
The code name and scope of the project and other details of the effort were reported on Friday by the New York Times in an adaptation from a coming book.
In Berlin, the German Bundestag is expected to approve extending the size and scope of a euro zone bailout fund with the marble-mouth sounding name of the European Financial Stability Facility.