change from the bottom up

[Laurence Horn]

>I know NFL, but what is "DK"?
>
>-Wilson

don't know.

LH

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>On 4/19/07, Baker, John <JMB at stradley.com> wrote:
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>>         Oll Korrect.
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>>         BFD I know, but NFL (in this sense) is new to me.
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>>John Baker
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>>From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf
>>Of James Harbeck
>>Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:04 PM
>>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>>Subject: Re: change from the bottom up
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>>>Surely it is an IM or text messaging
>>>initialism like LOL.  Didn't everything start with the internet?
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>>DK.
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>>NFL.
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>>BFD.
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>>James Harbeck.
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>>(The second initialism was one that my brother and I, and I think we
>>weren't the only ones, used to express an assessment of particular
>>unlikeliness. ca. 1980. I think the third one is, or was, rather common,
>>at least in our neck of the woods. Hands up if you know it.)
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