Secret OED files uncovered

[Lynne Murphy]

In British English, this even has a name:  the silly season.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silly_season>

Lynne

--On den 10 augusti 2010 06:24 -0400 David Barnhart
<dbarnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM> wrote:

> Dear Ben,
>
> So, what else is new; August is a slow month in the news business.
>
> DKB



Dr M Lynne Murphy
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Director of English Language and Linguistics
School of English
Arts B348
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QN

phone: +44-(0)1273-678844
http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com

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