[Ads-l] "young guns" and "young 'uns"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Oct 28 03:48:22 UTC 2015


On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I wrote about "young guns" for my Wall St. Journal column this week --
> crediting Neal's great research:
>

Somehow, I'm reminded of Long Island v. Long Guy-land.


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-Wilson
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