Atlantic Monthly: "Word Fugitives"

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Wed Feb 8 19:56:46 UTC 2006


On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:39:01AM -0800, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
> A subscriber has kindly sent this link to the full article, which is
> good for the next three days:
>
> http://www.theatlantic.com/r/ka/88BGbKSE%3D%0A

Odd; in our original discussion I had supplied several
additional quotes for _moonglade_ (i.e. additional to the two
that are in OED), and had been fact-checked on these, so I
assumed they would have appeared in the article. Must have
been edited out at the last minute.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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