"can do so much"

Arnold Zwicky zwicky at STANFORD.EDU
Sun May 24 16:31:28 UTC 2009


On May 23, 2009, at 6:58 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:

> When I looked a few years ago, I found  "couldn't care less" in print
> from 1944 and "could care less" from 1955:...

slightly longer discussion here:

ML, 4/13/05: Wrong for so long:
  http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002063.html

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