controversy NOT!

[Garson O'Toole]

The possibility of hapax legomena status is lost:

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I overheard two women behind me, talking about the self-same
non-controversy-let's just call it a nontroversy:

http://books.google.com/books?id=lQcQ5IqHp2EC&q=nontroversy#v=snippet&


On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'd bet it proves a nonce word.
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> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>  http://bit.ly/bo8Nmf
>> > This appears to be a nontroversy.
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