The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Tue Dec 4 00:40:42 UTC 2007


At 12/3/2007 03:46 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>i've said on Language Log that familiarity tends to breed
>anarthrousness.  in this case, i suspect that unfamiliarity is
>breeding anarthrousness.

Thanks for another new (to me) word of the day.  I will henceforth
refer to you as "The Arnold".

Joel

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