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[Ben Zimmer]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> "Gun-Nut 2nd-Amendments Wife to Death"

Nancy Friedman has nominated the verbified "second amendment" in the
Most Creative category for WOTY 2014:

http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2014/12/words-of-the-year-2014-fritinancy-edition.html

She traces the usage to Dan Savage:

http://www.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/03/12/two-year-old-second-amendments-himself-to-death

--bgz

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