No "lobster back" in the OED?

[Joel S. Berson]

Gotcha!  "Not The Answer I wanted".

Joel

At 8/21/2008 12:43 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
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>NTAIW => WTF?
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>Google gives only "Nam Tai Electronics, Inc. Warrants", which makes no
>sense here,
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>On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> >
> > NTAIW.  Now I'll have to track it down.  :-)   (Since it's in quotes
> > in a tertiary source, I don't know yet whether the secondary source
> > also quotes it and cites a primary source.  But if so, the date will
> > be pre-Revolutionary by nearly 30 years.)
> >
> > Joel
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>Mark Mandel
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