hacker

[Dan Goncharoff]

Or watch a performance of A Thousand Clowns -- I once performed the
character of Chuckles the Chipmunk...

DanG

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: hacker
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> While checking the OED entry for "hacker", I noticed that the
> preceding entry was "hackee", which brought to mind various possible
> senses for someone who is a target/victim/patient of the hacker
> (Shaq, for example, although not exactly a helpless victim).  But in
> fact the hackee is, we learn, 'a species of ground squirrel, the
> Striped or Chipping Squirrel, or Chipmuck, of North America'.  I had
> never before encountered "chipmuck" much less "hackee", but I stand
> informed.  Next time I see a Tamias Lysteri nibbling away in the
> garden, I'll be prepared.
>
> LH
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org