antedate for 'taboo', "linguistic prohibition"

[Wilson Gray]

Looks more like a mispreapprehension (a "word" originally heard back
in radio days: "It Pays To Be Ignorant"?) to me. :-)

-Wilson

On 9/29/07, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> You misundercomprehend me, Ben. I spoke figuratively, like poetry talk but in a humor way.
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>   JL
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> Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU> wrote:
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> On 9/29/07, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > As late as 1959 or 1960 I read or was told that "The United States is..." was "incorrect."
> > But not even I fell for that one.
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> > The controversy was a well-known cause of the Civil War.
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> Uh, yeah, well...
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> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002663.html
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> --Ben Zimmer
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