Arrayan
n.— «“There was so much Arrayan talk going on back then,” he said. “Aryan?” I asked, wondering if in addition to the many sins of the dot-com era, there had been some sort of overt component of fascism. “Arrogant talk. We’re the future, you’re history, that kind of thing.”» —“Riders on the Storm” by Thomas Beller New York Times May 9, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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