"electric" = electric power

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM
Thu Sep 15 12:26:09 UTC 2005


OED somehow misses this, though it's extremely common in the N. Y. metro area. My grandfather (b. 1884) used it all the time.

2005 Brian Kilmeade (from L.I.) on _Fox & Friends_ (Fox News Channel) (Sept. 15) : " A hundred thousand people without electric."


JL


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