May 17, 2015
in Soviet Russia, ‘gos-’ was used as a prefix for bureaus or departments, like ‘gosbank’ for the central bank, ‘gosplan’, which formulated the 1, 5 and 20 year plans, ‘gosnab,’ which acquired building materials, ‘gosten,’ which controlled building costs, etc.
whenever we were feeling particularly mirthful in that class (very very hard to do) we would amuse ourselves by adding ‘gos-’ as a prefix to everything