"Blawg"

Benjamin Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Sat Dec 29 04:24:57 UTC 2007


On Dec 28, 2007 10:13 PM, Shapiro, Fred <Fred.Shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> A _blawg_ is a law-related blog.  It's probably not in any dictionary, but has 811,000
> Google hits.  Nominee for WOTY?

Nothing particularly '07-ish about it. Here's a Language Log post I
wrote on "blawg" two years ago:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002780.html


--Ben Zimmer

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