optics (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake]

Of "optics," Bill Mullins observed:

> This usage goes back to 5/2008, if not earlier:
>
>
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/an_optics_problem_for_m
ccain.php

I first noticed this usage about 6 months ago.  It's one of my favorite
discoveries of the year.

And then I was interested (and grateful) to see that listmember Bruce K.
Dykes had posted about it in May, 1999.

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9905C&L=ADS-L&P=R153

-- Bonnie

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