Camouflage (from Fr. camoufler, to blind or veil; It. camuffare, to make up), a French word which came into use, and was adopted into English, at the opening of the World War, to express deceptive concealment, with all that it implies.

"The decline and fall of American English, and stuff"

"I found it extremely jarring to see "the BART" and "the MUNI" on that bus stop sign. It was *so* obviously not written or proof read by anyone in SF."

Post about definite articles, using BART and Muni as examples