Word (Phrase?) of the Year (so far)?; Rambo'd

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Jan 31 16:38:22 UTC 2013


On Jan 31, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

> One cannot turn a page of the sports section of the newspaper without
> seeing another mention of "Velvet antler spray", yet almost no one not
> using it would have heard of it on Jan 1.

Still out-googled by "deer antler spray" and "deer antler velvet spray", both of which I've heard more often, but let's see which one "wins" down the road.

LH

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