OT (sort of): in a couple weeks

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Oct 27, 2012, at 5:00 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Yesterday a CNN reporter spoke of people who will "early-vote."

discussion of the back-formations "early-vote" and "absentee-vote" on this mailing list in election season in 2008, with a summary on Language Log on 11/2/08:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=795

arnold

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