The term probably derives from the name of a 19th century American railroad superintendent, George R. _______ who, in 1886, devised what was then an innovative system of merits and demerits for employees on the Fall Brook Railway in New York state. Accounts of his system were published in railroad journals, and adopted by many leading U.S. railroads.
American railroad employees soon began referring colloquially to ______ _____ and at some point, the term entered the general vocabulary.
What term?
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