[Ads-l] app

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM
Wed Feb 11 13:03:03 UTC 2015


On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
> Applebee's is advertising "1/2 Price Apps."
>
> Appetizers.

When we last discussed this, I gave examples of "app" = 'appetizer'
back to 1989.

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2013-September/128313.html

--bgz

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