Quotations-of-the-year

Benjamin Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Wed Dec 19 17:57:05 UTC 2007


Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
>
> Featured on the Yahoo homepage: Our own Fred Shapiro's rankings of
> "quotations of the year":
>
>   http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071219/us_nm/usa_quotes_dc

Wow, two quotes from Joe Biden! Who'da thunk it? There was a time when Biden was
best-known for lifting *other* people's quotes...


--Ben Zimmer

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