Tomayto, Tomahto, Yamamamo, Yanomamo

[Joel S. Berson]

How did I do that?  The correct spelling was only 6 lines away!  (Now
if I'd gotten zero hits from Google instead of seven, or if Google
had suggested an alternate spelling, I'd of been OK.)

Joel

At 8/27/2008 03:31 PM, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> >
> > (Intriguingly, Google gives only 7 hits for Yamamamo + Chagnon, and
> > Google Books 0; the book itself apparently exists in many editions,
> > including a 1992 edition, ' "...a substantially revised adaptation of
> > the fourth college edition..."--T.p. verso.')
>
>Try Yanomamo + Chagnon (26,000 hits).
>
>
>--Ben Zimmer
>
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