Query about an abbreviation

[Jonathan Lighter]

And the unfamiliarity of the acronym to so many exposes, with lightning-flash effect, the true state of linguistics instruction in our schools and universities. O tempora, etc.

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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And I'd like to add that our own JL / Jonathon Lighter is the editor
of said publicatioon.

-Wilson

On 3/22/07, Susan Burt wrote:
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> Thank you, David!
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> Susan
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> On Mar 22, 2007, at 4:46 PM, David Borowitz wrote:
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> > Historical Dictionary of American Slang:
> > http://www.amazon.com/Random-House-Historical-Dictionary-American/dp/
> > 0394544277/
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> > I figured it out from
> > http://www.acronymattic.com/results.aspx?q=hdas%20~american
> > To agree with Susan, it might be useful for someone to just have a
> > website
> > somewhere with common abbreviations for works cited on the ADS-L list.
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> > On 3/22/07, Susan Burt wrote:
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> >>>> As would the 1910 example in the Dictionary of Americanisms, and the
> >>>> two additional 1910's cites in HDAS.
> >>
> >> This HDAS is cited fairly often by folks on this list, but I (for one)
> >> do not know what it stands for. I can guess that it might be a
> >> H--(?) (Harvard?) Dictionary of American Speech, but that's just a
> >> guess.
> >>
> >> Is anyone willing to give full bibliographic information for a
> >> relative
> >> newbie to the list?
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> >> Thanks,
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> >> Susan
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