Black Ops

Fred Shapiro fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Wed Oct 17 17:45:59 UTC 2001


On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:

> I look forward to Fred Shapiro ringing in, but in the meantime I'll point out
> that OED2 has a 1916 example of _ops_ (in the phrase "night ops") from
> Wilfred Owen.

Fred Shapiro was not able to find anything to ring in with.

Fred Shapiro


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